While a tight-knit, heavily traditional community in Beaufort County reeled from the sudden murder of its leader, the somber but reverent tributes poured in from the other side of the globe. “A ...

Monday’s fatal stabbing at the Oyutunji African Village in northern Beaufort County will likely send shockwaves across a small subculture of the U.S.: The murder victim was an internationally ...

Adorned in white robes and head scarves, members of the Oyotunji African Village in Sheldon celebrated the life and mourned the death of one of their community's founding members Saturday. Inside a ...

BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. (WSAV) – A close-knit Lowcountry community is dealing with the loss of its leader as a woman is arrested for murder. According to the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO), a ...

BEAUFORT - Adorned in white robes and head scarves, members of the Oyotunji African Village in Sheldon celebrated the life and mourned the death of one of their community's founding members Saturday.

The Oyotunji African Village, a small community off of Highway 17 near Beaufort, will host its second annual Pan-African Grassroots Assembly July 4-7. Speakers at the event will include Oyotunji’s ...

More than 35 years later, Iya Oba Adaramola still remembers the night in 1975 she turned off U.S. 21 to begin a new life with hundreds of others in the woods in Sheldon. "We came in the middle of the ...

Oba Adejuyigbe Adefunmi II of Oyotunji African village in Beaufort County, Southern Carolina, United States of America, was allegedly stabbed to death by his sister during a heated argument.

From left… Ambassador Rotimi Vaughan, Oloyotunji of Oyotunji, Oba Adefunmi II and Ooni of Ife, His Imperial Majesty, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja ll Ooni of ...

The expression "unity in the community" will take on added meaning at the free Harambee Festival in Dallas this weekend. The American-born Yoruba king of Oyotunji African Village in Sheldon, Beaufort ...

Adegbolu Abiogemo Adefunmi II, left, prepares to give a blessing during a ceremony for the future Rev. Ike Resource Center at the United Church on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023 in Beaufort’s Historic ...