Frank Baba Eyiogbe

Frank Baba Eyiogbe was initiated as a babalawo (Santería high priest) in Havana, Cuba in 1996 and received Olófin sixteen years later. He is an Oluwo as he was initiated five years earlier as a priest of Obatalá so he could be well-versed as a santero as well as a babalawo. He travels back and forth between La Havana and the U.S., working as a babalawo in both countries.

Frank considers Ifá his life as well as his profession and is happily married to his wife Lisa with two twin children, Emiliano and Xochitl.

“He is an excellent babalawo, my best godchild and wherever I go I use him as an example. An American who is as much a babalawo as us (in Cuba). As I always say, he is my most advanced godchild. It is always invigorating to share my little grains (of knowledge) with a godchild that I hold in such esteem and respect as a human being and as a babalawo.” – Miguelito Perez Alvarez, elder babalawo and Frank Baba Eyiogbe's Padrino in La Havana, Cuba