There’s an African village, Oyotunji village in South Carolina where the Yoruba culture is been practiced. The community
was founded by a black America named Walter Eugene King who was born on
October 5, 1928 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Oyotunji’s king is HRM Oba
Adejuyigbe Adefunmi II who began his destiny on earth December 21, 1976.
Born the 14th child of 22 children to His Royal Highness Oba
Efuntola Adefunmi I, and the third child of five born to Iya Esu Ogo
Oyewole. The King Adejuyigbe Adefunmi II was raised in the Kingdom of
Oyotunji African Village and began drumming at the age of seven.
He was
rooted in the traditional lifestyle of Oyotunji African
Village settlement in North America and witnessed thousands of Africans
in America that came to his father’s Kingdom in search of
broadening their cultural awareness.