Shockwaves are reverberating across Yorùbáland and the global Yorùbá diaspora following the sudden death of the Baba Ọba (King’s Father) of the famed Oyotunji African Village in South Carolina, USA. The late Baba Ọba, Lukman Arohunfale, a revered socialite and traditionalist, passed away under circumstances already sparking fierce controversy. His death comes just days after he publicly accused the newly installed Alaafin of Oyo, His Imperial Majesty Oba Akeem Adéyẹmọ Owoade, of allegedly ordering his courtiers to beat him mercilessly during a recent courtesy visit to the Oyo palace in Nigeria. In a widely circulated voice recording, the deceased recounted how what was meant to be a simple homage turned violent. Although the Baba Ọba had reportedly battled ill health in the past year, growing insinuations suggest that the alleged physical assault may have aggravated his condition, ultimately leading to his untimely death. The palace in Oyo recently denied that s...
Just recently, a new mom cooked her placenta, which had been kept frozen since her child was born, and she shared the process online. Elsie App, 26, is a certified placenta encapsulator, a qualification she got after completing a certificate in blood-borne pathogens, so to show people alternative uses for the placenta, which they say is highly nutritious, she detailed how to cook the placenta.
"Yep, this is exactly what it looks like first step is to rinse away the blood.... " she captioned one of the photos.
Apparently, there are different ways to prepare the placenta. There is the traditional Chinese method which involves steaming the placenta, drying it, then grinding it into a powder which is then put in a capsule to be swallowed as a drug. It was this method that Elsie used. In a different photo, the mother-of-two gave her reason for steaming the after-birth and explained what she intends to do with it afterward.
"I'm going to ground it up into powder form to get the hang of all my equipment and I'll encapsulate a couple for practise but the remainder of the powder will be buried in our yard under a tree," she explained on Instagram.
Though Elsie, who lives in the Sunshine Coast, Queensland Australia, encapsulates other women's placenta for them to consume as drugs, she did not consume that of her first child and she will also not consume this second one, because, according to her, she has a liver condition.
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