Oyotunji African Village

Oyotunji's Yoruba came by way of Cuba: Adefunmi was initiated in Matanzas in 1959, and his Harlem temples of 1959 and 1960 set out to transform Cuban Santería.

Tracey E. Hucks, Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism (University of New Mexico Press, 2012); Wikipedia, 'Adefunmi'

A village near Sheldon, South Carolina, founded in 1970 on Yoruba customs and named for Oyo.

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Kamari Maxine Clarke, Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities, 2004, Duke University Press; publisher's descriptionOyotunji as a Yoruba revivalist community founded in 1970, whose palace flags include one for an ancient Yoruba empire in South Carolina, and whose heritage travellers claim the history of the Oyo Empire.
the establishment of an ancient Yorùbá Empire in the state of South Carolina
Tracey E. Hucks, Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism, 2012, University of New Mexico Press, Religions of the Americas; chapter 6, 'Oyotunji African Village: A Diaspora Experiment in African Nationhood'Adefunmi cofounded Shango Temple in 1959, Yoruba Temple in 1960 and Oyotunji African Village in 1970, transforming Cuban Santería into a new, nationalist religious expression.