The True Identity Of Yoruba Race
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The True Identity Of Yoruba Race
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Author : Prince Oladipo JEJELOLA
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-08-23
The True Identity Of Yoruba Race written by Prince Oladipo JEJELOLA and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-23 with categories.
THE TRUE IDENTITY OF YORUBA RACE; unveiled at last.
The Yoruba Country
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Author : Adeyinka Shoyemi
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-09-21
The Yoruba Country written by Adeyinka Shoyemi and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-21 with categories.
The rise of Yoruba pride is tangible in everyday conversation, on the doorstep, and in the growing social media. Musicians and writers are exploring Yoruba issue more explicitly than has been the case for years. Politicians who have long expressed us as 'Nigerians first' no longer feel quite so eccentric. More happily, others have made Yoruba national pride a source of joy. What is interesting is not that Yoruba identity has risen but why? We all carry identities and loyalties to communities, ethnicities, teams, nations, or communities around the world. But it is only at certain times that we find one identity a powerful way of describing ourselves and our collective interests. It is at these times people turn to old identities and refresh them so they serve us in our modern world. National identities usually strengthen when people feel hard done-by. Today's Yoruba identity reflects a growing sense that Yoruba people lack a real voice on the things that matter to them, as demand for the Yoruba nation by Yoruba people shows clearly. Worse, they feel they are losing out and being treated less fairly in a multiethnic country. The perception that unitary system unfairly favours the Fulani and Ibo people is only part of the picture. North (or rather, Northerners) are thought to have more say than we do with the ways and manners past military Heads of State from the North have structured the system with more states, local governments, senators and House of Representative members. It is no surprise that strongest expressions of Yoruba nationalism are in those working class states where profound economic change has compounded by the impact of large-scale migration. Yoruba identity is rising in reaction to a real sense of powerlessness, insecurity and unfair political structure in a rapidly changing world. But our modern Yoruba identity is far from settled. For some, it is ethnic: an Oduduwa community with an imagined 2,000 years of common history. Many others are at ease with an inclusive Yoruba nationalism. Most seem comfortable with both their Yoruba and their Nigerian identities, a fact Yoruba-PDP members should not lightly set aside, for that is their meal tickets. We cannot however, spend our time doing studies of Yorubaness while others are out there making it. For us, developing and celebrating a national identity is an active exercise. We don't find our true identity in ever-deeper historical research, but want to make it ourselves. We should draw on radical traditions, but we must blend them with the histories of everyone who wants to feel Yoruba, and who recognises that a common identity is best developed through shared experience. The political response to the new Yoruba nationalism is a debate that has hardly begun. It is no coincidence that the Yoruba-APC talks openly about devolution of power, fiscal federalism, resource control, state police, regional regimental armed forces and the Oduduwa Republic - which have nothing to say about the future Yorubaland and its people should enjoy, nor about Yorubaland's place within the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but which might just favour the Yoruba-APC that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu leads. When disease attacks our bodies, the pain we suffer at first is our bodies' work in repairing the balance. If the balance is not restored, we are either maimed or we die. So it is with society. When we by our actions disturb the equilibrium, forces come into play to restore it - forces which pay no regard to human life. If they go bad, society dies; and the worst and most terrible of these correctives are revolution and war. We totally know that justice is better than oppression, freedom than slavery, and wealth than deprivation. We all recognize that our greatest pride is in something well done. We would infinitely prefer to enjoy this better state. Our difficulty is to see how to enjoy it - and live. It is the task of the Young Yoruba for Freedom (YYF) to point the way.
Yorub Identity And Power Politics
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Author : Toyin Falola
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2006
Yorub Identity And Power Politics written by Toyin Falola and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
Yorùbá Identity and Power Politics covers the major issues in Yorùbá history and politics, offering through narratives of the past and present a solid understanding of one of the most popular ethnic groups in Africa. Yorùbá Identity and Power Politics covers the major issues on Yorùbá history and politics, thus offering a solid understanding of one of the most popular ethnic groups in Africa. With a careful blend of sources and methods, narratives on the past and present, the book manages to present a long history as the backdrop to complicated contemporary politics. Contributors: Tunde M. Akinwumi, Olufunke A. Adeboye, R. T. Akinyele, Aribidesi Usman, Tunde Oduwobi, Olufemi Vaughan, Abolade Adeniji, Jean-Luc Martineau, Ann O'Hear, Rasheed Olaniyi, Charles Temitope Adeyanju, Julius O. Adekunle, Funso Afolayan, Olayiwola Abegunrin. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Ann Genova is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin.
The Yoruba From Prehistory To The Present
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Author : Aribidesi Usman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-04
The Yoruba From Prehistory To The Present written by Aribidesi Usman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-04 with History categories.
A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.
The History Of The Yorubas
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Author : Samuel Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1966
The History Of The Yorubas written by Samuel Johnson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with History categories.
The first published account and standard reference for the history of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, first published in 1921.
Art And Risk In Ancient Yoruba
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Author : Suzanne Preston Blier
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-02
Art And Risk In Ancient Yoruba written by Suzanne Preston Blier and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-02 with Social Science categories.
In this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife and the striking ways that ancient Ife artworks inform society, politics, history and religion. Yoruba art offers a unique lens into one of Africa's most important and least understood early civilizations, one whose historic arts have long been of interest to local residents and Westerners alike because of their tour-de-force visual power and technical complexity. Among the complementary subjects explored are questions of art making, art viewing and aesthetics in the famed ancient Nigerian city-state, as well as the attendant risks and danger assumed by artists, patrons and viewers alike in certain forms of subject matter and modes of portrayal, including unique genres of body marking, portraiture, animal symbolism and regalia. This volume celebrates art, history and the shared passion and skill with which the remarkable artists of early Ife sought to define their past for generations of viewers.
Yoruba Elites And Ethnic Politics In Nigeria
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Author : Wale Adebanwi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-31
Yoruba Elites And Ethnic Politics In Nigeria written by Wale Adebanwi and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria.
Dress In The Making Of African Identity A Social And Cultural History Of The Yoruba People
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Author : Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi
language : en
Publisher: Cambria Press
Release Date : 2015-09-08
Dress In The Making Of African Identity A Social And Cultural History Of The Yoruba People written by Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi and has been published by Cambria Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-08 with Social Science categories.
This is a book on the social and cultural history of Yoruba people, a people in southwest Nigeria. As the first to provide a comprehensive treatment of Yoruba dress in historical perspective, this book is an important contribution to African history in general and the Yoruba cultural history in particular. The book illuminates the impact of Christianity, Islam, and British colonialism on the construction of Yoruba identity, and how dress was entangled in that construction. It also provides insightful discussions of the transformations in dress culture since independence and demonstrates the importance of dress as a site for contesting and articulating postcolonial Yoruba identity and class structure within the Nigerian national space. This book provides many insights into these issues and is thus an invaluable addition to Africana studies, anthropology, and history.
Evidence Of Things Not Seen
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Author : Rhonda D. Frederick
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-15
Evidence Of Things Not Seen written by Rhonda D. Frederick and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions is an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas. The “fantastical” in fantastical blackness is conceived by an unrestrained imagination because it lives, despite every attempt at annihilation. This blackness amazes because it refuses the limits of anti-blackness. As put to work in this project, fantastical blackness is an ethical praxis that centers black self-knowledge as a point of departure rather than as a reaction to threatening or diminishing dominant narratives. Mystery, romance, fantasy, mixed-genre, and science fictions’ unrestrained imaginings profoundly communicate this quality of blackness, specifically here through the work of Barbara Neely, Colson Whitehead, Nalo Hopkinson, and Colin Channer. When black writers center this expressive quality, they make fantastical blackness available to a broad audience that then uses its imaginable vocabularies to reshape extra-literary realities. Ultimately, popular genres’ imaginable possibilities offer strategies through which the made up can be made real.
Religious Encounter And The Making Of The Yoruba
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Author : John David Yeadon Peel
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2003-02-21
Religious Encounter And The Making Of The Yoruba written by John David Yeadon Peel and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-21 with History categories.
"Peel is by training an anthropologist, but one possessed of an acute historical sensibility. Indeed, this magnificent book achieves a degree of analytical verve rare in either discipline." —History Today "[T]his is scholarship of the highest quality. . . . Peel lifts the Yoruba past to a dimension of comparative seriousness that no one else has managed. . . . The book teems with ideas . . . about big and compelling matters of very wide interest." —T. C. McCaskie In this magisterial book, J. D. Y. Peel contends that it is through their encounter with Christian missions in the mid-19th century that the Yoruba came to know themselves as a distinctive people. Peel's detailed study of the encounter is based on the rich archives of the Anglican Church Missionary Society, which contain the journals written by the African agents of mission, who, as the first generation of literate Yoruba, played a key role in shaping modern Yoruba consciousness. This distinguished book pays special attention to the experiences of ordinary men and women and shows how the process of Christian conversion transformed Christianity into something more deeply Yoruba.