Africa
Africa
A Pilgrimage To My Motherland: An Account Of A Journey Among The Egbas And Yorubas Of Central Africa, In 1859-60
A Pilgrimage To My Motherland is a non-fiction book written by Robert Campbell, originally published in 1861. The book is an account of Campbell's journey among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa in 1859-60. Campbell was a Scottish missionary...
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Oshun's Flow (Yoruba Orisa Children's) (Paperback)
Oshun makes the water flow. The water makes everything grow. For this flow, Oshun needs respect and thanksgiving. The people of Osogbo remember this, but some people in the world do not. So can the water still flow everywhere? Find...
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The Oral Traditions in ILE –IFE: The Yoruba People And Their Book Of Enlightenment
This research monograph discusses the understudied and often misunderstood aspects of West African culture and religion especially that of the Yoruba people and their Book of Enlightenment (Ife-Ifa) together with its metaphysical importance to the Yoruba as a source of...
$99.00
ODUDUWA: The Untold Story of the Great Ancestor and Founder of the Yoruba Kingdom
Embark on a captivating journey through the rich legacy of Yoruba heritage in 'Oduduwa: The Untold Story of the Great Ancestor and Founder of the Yoruba Kingdom.' Delving into the intricate realms of Yoruba oral traditions, this book unveils the...
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Leyendas Yorubas por M. I. Ogumefu B. A. 1929 (Spanish Edition)
Pequeño libro que trata sobre algunas historias antiguas de los pueblos Yorubas, asi con esos datos tratar de entender el pensamiento, creencias y tradiciones de estos seres humanos en tiempos antiguos en tiempos pasados.
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The Laws and Customs of the Yoruba People
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
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The Laws and Customs of the Yoruba People
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$15.94
Afterlives: A Novel
From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa.When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the...
$28.00
The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684–1706
Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita was a young Kongolese woman who in 1704 claimed to be possessed by St. Anthony, argued that Jesus was a Kongolese, criticized Italian Capuchin missionaries for not supporting black saints, and attempted to stop the devastating...
$25.99
Fetha Nagast: Law of the Kings
Ethiopian ancient law; governing the royalty, nobility, and clergy of Ethiopia for centuries.
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The Painful Demise of Eurocentrism: An Afrocentric Response to Critics
Dr. Asante combines cultural studies, linguistics, historiography, Kementology, and Africology in this brilliant response to the critics of Afrocentricity. He demonstrates that the principal problem with the critics of Afrocentrics is their disbelief in the agency of Africans ¡V that...
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Foreign Influence in Ancient India
Foreign influence has played a significant part in the evolution of Indian culture. Written by a reputed scholar from school of oriental and African studies, University of London. The author claims that the rich diversity of India is the result...
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Kingdoms of the Yoruba (Studies in African History)
Originally published in 1969 and as a second edition in 1976, this book gives a general account of the major Yoruba kingdoms and provides a synthesis of Yoruba and Igbomina history, culture and archaeology. The reasons for, and the chronology...
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Introduction to Yoruba: Language, Culture, Literature & Religious Beliefs Part I
If you can speak English then you can easily teach yourself the Yoruba language.
$77.00
A History of the Yoruba People
A History of the Yoruba People is a comprehensive exploration of the founding and growth of one of the most influential groups in Africa. With a population of nearly 40 million spread across Western Africa - and diaspora communities in...
$74.95
Grammar And Dictionary Of The Yoruba Language: With An Introductory Description Of The Country And People Of Yoruba
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$32.95
Grammar And Dictionary Of The Yoruba Language
This comprehensive grammar and dictionary is an essential resource for anyone interested in the Yoruba language. It covers everything from basic sentence structure to the nuances of pronunciation and meaning. With clear explanations and numerous examples, it is the perfect...
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Grammar And Dictionary Of The Yoruba Language
This comprehensive grammar and dictionary is an essential resource for anyone interested in the Yoruba language. It covers everything from basic sentence structure to the nuances of pronunciation and meaning. With clear explanations and numerous examples, it is the perfect...
$32.95
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture
The Good, the Bad, and the BeautifulDiscourse about Values in Yoruba CultureBarry HallenReveals everyday language as the key to understanding morals and ethics in Yoruba culture."This contrasts with any suggestion that in Yoruba or, more generally, African society, moral thinking...
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Global Yorùbá: Regional and Diasporic Networks
In Global Yorùbá, renowned scholar Toyin Falola covers the history, people, traditions, environment, religion, spirituality, cosmology, culture, and philosophy of one of Africa's largest cultural groups, the Yorùbá, all while considering the people's relationship with their immediate and distant neighbors.Falola examines how...
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FULANI OPPRESS YORUBA: How Did We Get Under This Mess, and How Do We Get Out?
Attention! If you reside in the USA, Europe, or Canada, and are planning a visit to Yorubaland, this book is essential for you to understand the potential dangers. The current situation is far from safe! Why is that, you may...
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Fathers Work for Their Sons: Accumulation, Mobility, and Class Formation in an Extended Yoruba Community
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...
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Ancient Future
Ancient Future celebrates the wisdom of those ancient civilizations that did not disassociate the philosophical, spiritual, and material realms of life. This book is an attempt to re-create this holistic experience in hopes that a synthesized view of life will...
$18.95
Introduction to African Civilizations
Timely, relevant, and illuminating, this essential book by respected cultural historian, teacher, and author John G. Jackson sheds long overdue light on standard Eurocentric and distorting approaches to the history of Africa from early African civilizations to Africa’s significance in...
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Chaka
Chaka is a genuine masterpiece that represents one of the earliest major contributions from black Africa to the corpus of modern world literature. Mofolo's fictionalized life-story account of Chaka (Shaka), translated from Sesotho by D. P. Kunene, begins with the future...
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Mandela the Spear and Other Poems
The strength of Mandela the Spear and other Poems lies in Okai's burning desire to celebrate the black experience and culture, through the iconic figures who symbolize those struggles and triumphs. Thus, not surprisingly, one encounters names like Mandela, Nadine...
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Allah's Garden: A True Story of a Forgotten War in the Sahara Desert of Morocco
Allah's Garden is a true story of a Moroccan doctor's 25-year imprisonment in Sahara Desert. Told alongside the author's own time as a volunteer, the two stories combine to unveil secrets held deep within the desolate land known as "Allah's Garden."
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King Leopold's Ghost, 1st, First Edition
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its...
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The Development of Yoruba Candomble Communities in Salvador, Bahia, 1835-1986 (Afro-Latin@ Diasporas)
This project is an attempt to bring together the many fragments of history concerning the Yoruba religious community and their rise to prominence in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, from the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries.
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