What's Inside

As an Akeko, you participate in monthly live discussions, PLUS access the video archive of all past discussions (Note: We're still moving into our new home at the Communiversity, the rest of the archive is coming!)

  • 1

    This Month in the Circle

    • Check-Ins with Iya Funlayo
  • 2

    Akeko Resources

    • Akeko Circle Reading List

    • Akeko Discount Codes

    • Communiversity Past Course Access

  • 3

    Live Discussion Links

    • Akeko Circle May 2023

    • Akeko Circle June 2023

    • Akeko Circle July 2023

    • Akeko Circle August 2023

    • Akeko Circle Sept 2023

    • Akeko Circle Oct 2023

    • Akeko Circle Nov 2023

    • Akeko Circle Dec 2023
  • 4

    Akeko Circle Replays 2023

    • April 2023: Women in Yoruba Religions by Oyeronke Olademo

    • March 2023: Initiated by the Spirits with Dr. Frederique Apffel-Marglin

    • February 2023: Orisa Songs with Iya Funlayo

    • January 2023: The Gut with Iya Dr. Elizabeth Perez
  • 5

    Akeko Circle Replays 2022

    • December 2022: Black Spirit Solstice Summit Q & A

    • November 2022: Ask Iya Anything + Guided Meditation

    • October 2022: Iya's Ancestral Workbook + Songs

    • September 2022: Four Yoruba Rituals + Obi Divination

    • July 2022: Iya's Current Reads and Guided Meditation

    • August 2022: Introduction to Ifa

    • May 2022: African Traditional Religions with Baba Will Coleman

    • June 2022: The Study of Yoruba Religious Traditions in Historical Perspective by Dr. Jacob Olupona

    • April 2022: Ask Iya Anything + Guided Meditation

    • March 2022: Essays by Baba John Mason

    • February 2022: Flash of the Spirit by Robert Farris Thompson

    • January 2022: Black Women, Black Love with Dr. Dianne M. Stewart
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    Akeko Circle Replays 2021

    • December 2021: Summit Q + A and Guided Meditation

    • November 2021: Ancient Future Unity with Dr. Lindsey Cameron

    • October 2021: Ask Iya Anything + Special Guided Meditation

    • September 2021: Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism by Dr. Tracey Hucks

    • August 2021: Black Magic with Yvonne Chireau

    • July 2021: God is Not One by Stephen Prothero

    • June 2021: Iyanifa Women of Power with Iyanifa Ayele Kumari

    • May 2021: Orisa: New World Black Gods by Baba John Mason

    • April 2021: ADRSA 2021 Re-Cap

    • March 2021: Yoruba Philosophy with Dr. Ayodeji Ogunnaike

    • February 2021: Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa with Dr. Oludamini Ogunnaike

    • January 2021: African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison with Iya Dr. Koko Zauditu-Selassie
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    Akeko Circle Replays 2020

    • December 2020: Black Spirit Solstice Summit Recap

    • November 2020: Breathing with Orisa by Baba Oludare Bernard

    • October 2020: Sacred Healing and Material Culture with Dr. Kyrah Malika Daniels

    • September 2020: The Fetish Revisited with Dr. J. Lorand Matory

    • August 2020: Objects and Immortals by Dr. Funlayo Wood-Menzies

    • July 2020: Ask Iya Anything!

    • June 2020: Working the Roots by Michele Lee

    • May 2020: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer

    • April 2020: Divining the Self by Iya Dr. Velma Love

    • February 2020: Spiritual Citizenship by Dr N. Fadeke Castor

    • Jan 2020: Mojo Workin' by Dr. Katrina Hazzard Donald
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    Akeko Circle Replays 2019

    • Dec 2019: Private Black Spirit Solstice Summit Recap

    • Nov 2019: Ori by Awo Falokun Fatumbi

    • May, June, July 2019: Women's Power

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    Akeko Circle Replays 2018

    • November 2018: Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism by Dr. Tracey Hucks

    • October 2018: Imagined Voodoo by Dr. Adam McGee

    • September 2018: Religion in the Kitchen by Dr. Elizabeth Perez

    • August 2018: The Color of God: Race, Faith, and Interfaith Dialogue

    • July 2018: Orisa: New World Black Gods by Baba John Mason