Jaap Verduijn

Jaap Verduijn has been a student of Ifa since 1982, becoming an avid collector of Ifa texts (Ese Odu Ifa) almost immediately, and a practicing Ifa diviner not much later. After his appearance on the internet in 1998 it didn't take him long to become enjoyably controversial, resulting in quite an impressive range of threats, hexes, vilifications, curses and even an assassination attempt being liberally thrown his way. Yet the cantankerous old bahstud is still around ;-) !

Verduijn does not practice inside the usual "Orunmila system", but operates as an independent diviner. He emphasizes strongly that he is NOT a Babalawo or Ifa PRIEST - he is an Ifa DIVINER... period.

His series of Odu Ifa books will, once completed, count between 3000 and 3,500 pages, a collection larger than any other hitherto published. The design, layout and the drawings in the books are created by his talented student Brenda Beek.