The Kini Kini Bird And More Yoruba Folktales
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The Kini Kini Bird And More Yoruba Folktales
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Author : Rotimi Ogunjobi
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-12
The Kini Kini Bird And More Yoruba Folktales written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12 with Reference categories.
The Kini-Kini Bird and more Yoruba Folktales is a selection of folklore thought to have originated from the Yoruba people. The Yoruba are native to the western part of Nigeria. A few centuries ago, the cultural influence of this ethnic group stretched much further out into the West Africa region. Folk tales of the Yoruba are often severely fantastic, the themes generally underscoring the largely agrarian occupation and also the great reverence accorded the gods and the traditional rulers of the communities.
Ajantala Other Yoruba Folktales
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Author : Rotimi Ogunjobi
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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Ajantala Other Yoruba Folktales written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The Three Birds From Olongo
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Author : Agbo Folarin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Three Birds From Olongo written by Agbo Folarin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Birds categories.
Yoruba Legends
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Author : Various
language : en
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2010-07
Yoruba Legends written by Various and has been published by Abela Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07 with Fiction categories.
NOTE: This book has been illustrated and published by the students of Edgbarrow School in Berkshire, England as a special project to raise funds for their Ghana Sponsorship campaign. DESCRIPTION: The Yoruba people are descendants from a variety of West African communities. They are united by Geography, History, Religion and most importantly their Language. In this volume you will find 31 stories and tales like: AKITI THE HUNTER, SONS OF STICKS, WHY WOMEN HAVE LONG HAIR THE LEOPARD-MAN, THE COOKING POT and many more. You also will find a further nine stories of the adventures of Tortoise and the many mischievous things he gets up to. Many years ago, before the advent of the West African slave trade, the Yoruba people inhabited an area which stretched, along the coast of West Africa, all the way inward and down to Angola in South West Africa. Today this is not the case. The legends and fairy stories in this book belong to the Yoruba. They relate the adventures of men and animals, and try to explain the mysteries of Nature-Why Women have Long Hair, How the Leopard got his Spots, the Three Magicians, the Boa-Constrictor, How the Elephant got his Trunk and more. These stories grew from the imagination of the people. We read these folk-tales for their quaintness and humour, for their sympathy with Nature, and because we find in them the ideas and ideals, not just of one man, but of a race of people. In modern times we have begun paying close attention to folklore - old tales, not invented by one man, but belonging to the whole people; not written down, but told by parents to their children, and so handed on for hundreds of years. The legends express primitive notions of right and wrong. As a rule, the wicked are punished and the good rewarded; and that, we feel, is as it should be. We may weep at the death of rascally Tortoise, but we may also feel that he somehow has deserved his fate!
Yoruba Folk Tales
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Author : Rotimi Ogunjobi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-06-04
Yoruba Folk Tales written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-04 with categories.
The imagery in Yoruba folk tales can be quite striking and are often astonishing .The tales live and breathe and sometimes walk into each other and around at night when all have gone to sleep. But in the end there is always a moral lesson that was learned.All these stories are derived from Yoruba folklore. Some are as old as the art of storytelling itself, some are relatively newer, some I have been gleaned from places that have become lost to memory, and some I have made up entirely on my own . In all cases I have attempted to retell the stories in my own way, and in the way of a Yoruba storyteller. - Rotimi Ogunjobi
African Tales
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Author : Harold Scheub
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 2005-04-29
African Tales written by Harold Scheub and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-29 with Social Science categories.
The latest work from Harold Scheub, one of the world's leading scholars of African folktales, is the broadest collection yet assembled with tales from the entire continent of Africa, north to south. It brings together mythic, fantastic, and coming-of-age tales, some transcribed more than a hundred years ago, others dating to modern-day Africa. Scheub includes the work of storytellers from major African language groups, as well as many storytellers whose work is not often heard outside of Africa. This anthology offers a classroom-ready collection that should appeal to any scholar of African literature and culture. Realizing that these tales are part of a dying art, Scheub writes for the inner ear in everyone, bringing an oral tradition to life in written form.
Orature And Yoruba Riddles
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Author : A. Akinyeme
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-02-09
Orature And Yoruba Riddles written by A. Akinyeme and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-09 with History categories.
Orature and Yorùbá Riddles takes readers into the hitherto unexplored undercurrents of riddles in Africa. Because of its oral and all too often ephemeral nature, riddles have escaped close scrutiny from scholars. The strength of the Yorùbá as the focus of this study is impressive indeed: a major ethnic group in Africa, with established connections with the black diaspora in North America and the Caribean; a rich oral and written culture; a large and diverse population; and an integrated rural-urban society. The book is divided into six chapters for readers' convenience. When read in sequence, the book provides a comprehensive, holistic sense of Yorùbá creativity where riddles are concerned. At the same time, the book is conceived in a way that each chapter could be read individually. Therefore, those readers seeking understanding of a specific type of riddle may target a single chapter appearing most relevant to her/his curiosity.
The Palm Wine Drinkard And His Dead Palm Wine Tapster In The Dead S Town
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Author : Amos Tutuola
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
The Palm Wine Drinkard And His Dead Palm Wine Tapster In The Dead S Town written by Amos Tutuola and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Alcoholics categories.
This classic novel tells the phantasmagorical story of an alcoholic man and his search for his dead palm-wine tapster. As he travels through the land of the dead, he encounters a host of supernatural and often terrifying beings - among them the complete gentleman who returns his body parts to their owners and the insatiable hungry-creature. Mixing Yoruba folktales with what T. S. Eliot described as a 'creepy crawly imagination', "The Palm-Wine Drinkard" is regarded as the seminal work of African literature.
King Chameleon And More West African Folktales
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Author : Rotimi Ogunjobi
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-12
King Chameleon And More West African Folktales written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12 with Reference categories.
King Chameleon and more West African Folktales is a selection of folklore believed to have originated from West Africa and the people who live in the region. West Africa is home to several scores of tribes, languages and dialects. Even though, tribal cords are quite strong and languages may differ markedly even between two communities a few hundred miles apart, it is usual to find similarities between the local folktales, and in some cases only the names of the central characters would make one version of a tale to be different from another . Most of the stories in this volume were gleaned from areas within the countries now known as Ghana and Togo. However, the stories are commonly retold in several forms all over the West Africa region.
Yoruba
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Author : Henry John Drewal
language : en
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date : 1989
Yoruba written by Henry John Drewal and has been published by Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Art categories.
The Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin, over 15 million strong, are heirs to one of the oldest and greatest artistic traditions in West Africa. This text offers a look at Yoruba civilization. Over 200 photographs illustrate rarely seen objects from museums and private collections.