Philly’s 43rd Odunde Festival celebrates African spirituality and cultural connection

6/10/18. Ask most Philadelphians to name a holy place and the Schuylkill River is unlikely spring to mind. But at the Odunde festival in South Philly on Sunday, that tributary of the Delaware became a kind of altar as practitioners of Ifa, a belief system related to the Yoruba religion of Nigeria, processed to the South Street Bridge where about a hundred people gathered to celebrate Osun, the river goddess, as a way to welcome the Yoruba new year.

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