The Yoruba People
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A History Of The Yoruba People
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Author : Stephen Adebanji Akintoye
language : en
Publisher: Amalion Publishing
Release Date : 2010-01-01
A History Of The Yoruba People written by Stephen Adebanji Akintoye and has been published by Amalion Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with History categories.
A History of the Yoruba People is an audacious comprehensive exploration of the founding and growth of one of the most influential groups in Africa. In this commendable book, S. Adebanji Akintoye deploys four decades of historiography research with current interpretation and analyses to present the most complete and authoritative volume on the Yoruba to date. This exceptionally lucid account gathers and imparts a wealth of research and discourses on Yoruba studies for a wider group of readership than ever before. Very few attempts have tried to grapple fully with the historical foundations and development of a group that has contributed to shaping the way African communities are analysed from prehistoric to modern times. “A wondrous achievement, a profound pioneering breakthrough, a reminder to New World historians of what ‘proper history’ is all about – a recount which draws the full landed and spiritual portrait of a people from its roots up – A History of the Yoruba People is yet another superlative work of brilliant chronicling and persuasive interpretation by an outstanding scholar and historiographer of Africa.~ Prof Michael Vickers, author of Ethnicity and Sub-Nationalism in Nigeria: Movement for a Mid-West Stateand Phantom Trail: Discovering Ancient America. “This book is more than a 21st century attempt to (re)present a comprehensive history of the Yoruba ... shifting the focus to a broader and more eclectic account. It is a far more nuanced, evidentially-sensitive, systematic account.” ~ Wale Adebanwi, Assist. Prof., African American and African Studies, UC Davis, USA. “Akintoye links the Yoruba past with the present, broadening and transcending Samuel Johnson in scope and time, and reviving both the passion and agenda that are over a century old, to reveal the long history and definable identity of a people and an ethnicity...Here is an accessible book, with the promise of being ageless, written by the only person who has sustained an academic interest in this subject for nearly half a century, providing the treasures of accumulated knowledge, robust encounters with received wisdom, and mature judgement about the future.” ~ Toyin Falola, The Frances Higginbotham Nalle Professor in History, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
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.
The Yoruba People
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Author : Captivating History
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-01-28
The Yoruba People written by Captivating History and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-28 with History categories.
Encyclopedia Of The Yoruba
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Author : Toyin Falola
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-20
Encyclopedia Of The Yoruba written by Toyin Falola 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 2016-06-20 with Social Science categories.
“The encyclopedia gives a complex, yet detailed, presentation of the Yorùbá, a dominant ethnic group in West Africa . . . an invaluable resource.” —Yoruba Studies Review The Yoruba people today number more than thirty million strong, with significant numbers in the United States, Nigeria, Europe, and Brazil. This landmark reference work emphasizes Yoruba history, geography and demography, language and linguistics, literature, philosophy, religion, and art. The 285 entries include biographies of prominent Yoruba figures, artists, and authors; the histories of political institutions; and the impact of technology and media, urban living, and contemporary culture on Yoruba people worldwide. Written by Yoruba experts on all continents, this encyclopedia provides comprehensive background to the global Yoruba and their distinctive and vibrant history and culture. “Readers unfamiliar with the Yoruba will find the introduction a concise and valuable overview of their language and its dialects, recent history, mythology and religion, and diaspora movements . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice
The Yoruba
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Author : Akinwumi Ogundiran
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-03
The Yoruba written by Akinwumi Ogundiran and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-03 with History categories.
Although the Yoruba are the most populous ethnic group on the African continent, most histories tend to fossilize them in a timeless cultural past where traditions simply repeat themselves over the centuries. In his groundbreaking work, The Yoruba: A New History, Akinwumi Ogundiran examines the development of the ideas and practices that have shaped the Yoruba identity and experience going back as far as AD 800. Weaving together the threads and traces of oral traditions, rituals, and social memory, Ogundiran examines the intersecting domains of everyday Yoruba life, including economics, politics, power, religion, arts and aesthetics, and knowledge systems. Going against the grain of many histories of the Yoruba that locate cultural change in colonial encounters, Ogundiran opts for an eclectic approach that illuminates new theories of practice and cultural transition, the philosophical premises of community, and the global and regional interactions which frame and ground local experiences.
The Yoruba People
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Author : Captivating History
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
The Yoruba People written by Captivating History and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
The Laws And Customs Of The Yoruba People
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Author : E. a. Ajisafe Moore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-02
The Laws And Customs Of The Yoruba People written by E. a. Ajisafe Moore and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Laws and Customs of the Yoruba People
The Laws And Customs Of The Yoruba People
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Author : E. A. Ajisafẹ Moore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
The Laws And Customs Of The Yoruba People written by E. A. Ajisafẹ Moore and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Law, Yoruba 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!
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.