Shango
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Shango
Yoruba
Example Sentences
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“The fact that it happened here dealt not just an emotional blow, but also an economic blow,” said Shango Oya, a resident of the neighborhood for more than a decade.
From New York Times • May 15, 2022
Shango employs 47 people in Oregon, McKee said.
From Washington Post • Nov. 6, 2015
Perhaps most disturbing of all was the career of Charles Wright, who was cast in the role of Papa Shango, a voodoo priest who laid curses on opponents.
From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2015
His choreography was sharp, ecstatic, pyretic; while his dancers, swathed in brilliant fabrics and ornate feathered headpieces, merged the rhapsodic convulsions common to the Shango and Yoruba faiths with sleek pirouettes and dazzling leaps.
From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2015
She take Shango for husband, Shango, orisha for lightning.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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