Discover how Walter Eugene King founded Oyotunji African Village in 1970 to reconnect Black Americans with their West African heritage, creating the first traditional Yoruba community in North America on former plantation land.
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What Adefunmi and the Oyotunji community were doing was spiritual reparations—reconnecting African Americans with the religious traditions that slavery had severed.
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How was Oyotunji African Village founded and what is its significance to authentic Yoruba culture?
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