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Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother-Tongue to Memory (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory)
A deeply informed Afrocentric view of language and cultural retention under slavery.Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a comprehensive description of the West African language of Yoruba as it has been used on the island of Trinidad in the southern Caribbean. The study...
$34.95
Trends in Social and Political History in Okun-Yoruba Land to 1960
Okun Yoruba Land located in North Central Part of Nigeria is a minority polity. As a result of this, it does not attract serious academic attention from Researchers, as result there is a dearth of Historical Knowledge about the people....
$81.99
Table of Principal Events in Yoruba History, with Certain Other Matters of General Interest, Compiled for Use in the Courts Within the British Colony of Lagos, Etc
Title: Table of principal events in Yoruba history, with certain other matters of general interest, compiled ... for use in the Courts within the British Colony of Lagos, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library...
$20.75
Seventeen Years in the Yoruba Country: Memorials of Anna Hinderer, Wife of the Rev. David Hinderer, C.M.S. Missionary in Western Africa (paperback)
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...
$24.95
Seventeen Years in the Yoruba Country. Memorials of Anna Hinderer
Compiled by Anna Martin Hinderer, with additions by C.A. and D. Hone, Seventeen Years in the Yoruba Country is a fascinating memoir of Anna's time living and working among the Yoruba people in Nigeria in the late 19th century. This...
$36.95
Seventeen Years in the Yoruba Country. Memorials of Anna Hinderer
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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work...
$36.95
The Rule of Law and Governance in Indigenous Yoruba Society: A Study in African Philosophy of Law
$188.00
The Rule of Law and Governance in Indigenous Yoruba Society: A Study in African Philosophy of Law
In The Rule of Law and Governance in Indigenous Yoruba Society, John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji has two main goals. The first is to provide an exploration of aspects of indigenous Yoruba philosophy of law. The second is to relate this...
$188.00
Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba
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...
$44.00
Raíces Entretejidas: España y Cuba. religión yoruba (Spanish Edition)
Raíces Entretejidas, es una exploración que sumerge al lector en la fascinante conexión entre España y Cuba, desentrañando los misterios del sincretismo religioso que dio origen a la religión yoruba en la isla caribeña. A través de la mirada apasionada...
$6.98
Proverbs of a Highly Inspired Yoruba Man
Historically Yorùbá proverbs have been used to communicate the weight of words and how important it is to look beyond what meets the eyes generally. Popularly said is "Òwe l'ẹşin ọrọ" loosely meaning 'Proverbs are the horse with which words...
$19.98
Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel: I. B. Thomas's 'Life Story of Me, Segilola' and Other Texts (African Sources for African History, 12)
First appearing as a series of letters to a local newspaper, "The Life Story of Me, Segilola" caused a sensation in Lagos in the late 1920s. The lifelike autobiography of a repentant courtesan, it regaled the reader with risqué escapades,...
$122.00
Princess Aina: Queen Victoria's Yoruba Godchild
Born to the chief of the Yoruba Egbado Tribe in Oke-Odan, Aina survived a raid by King Ghezo of Dahomey at a young age. Before the king could use her for a religious sacrifice, Captain Frederick E. Forbes negotiated her...
$14.95
Proverbs of a Highly Inspired Yoruba Man
Historically Yorùbá proverbs have been used to communicate the weight of words and how important it is to look beyond what meets the eyes generally. Popularly said is "Òwe l'ẹşin ọrọ" loosely meaning 'Proverbs are the horse with which words...
$19.99
Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel: I. B. Thomas's 'Life Story of Me, Segilola' and Other Texts (African Sources for African History, 12)
First appearing as a series of letters to a local newspaper, "The Life Story of Me, Segilola" caused a sensation in Lagos in the late 1920s. The lifelike autobiography of a repentant courtesan, it regaled the reader with risqué escapades,...
$122.00
Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel: I. B. Thomas's 'Life Story of Me, Segilola' and Other Texts (African Sources for African History, 12)
First appearing as a series of letters to a local newspaper, "The Life Story of Me, Segilola" caused a sensation in Lagos in the late 1920s. The lifelike autobiography of a repentant courtesan, it regaled the reader with risqué escapades,...
$122.00
Princess Aina: Queen Victoria's Yoruba Godchild
Born to the chief of the Yoruba Egbado Tribe in Oke-Odan, Aina survived a raid by King Ghezo of Dahomey at a young age. Before the king could use her for a religious sacrifice, Captain Frederick E. Forbes negotiated her...
$14.95
PRIMEROS PASOS EN LA SANTERIA: RELIGION YORUBA (spanish edition)
Después de haber servido mas de treinta años en Cuba, el autor, después de problemas de salud, ha recibido el apoyo de la religión yoruba, más conocida como Santería.La religión yoruba está muy extendida en Africa y América Latina, practicada...
$18.00
Prieto
This Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773–c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoruba people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Richly situating Prieto's story...
$90.00
Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions (hardcover)
This Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773–c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoruba people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Richly situating Prieto's story...
$144.00
Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions (paperback)
This Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773–c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoruba people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Richly situating Prieto's story...
$35.00
Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town
Elisha Renne focuses on things associated with the human body -- such as houses, graves, hymens, blood, and bones -- as a concrete means for analyzing new ideas of fertility in an Ekiti Yoruba town in Southwestern Nigeria. By looking...
$55.00
Political Organization and Religious Belief Among the Yoruba People of Nigeria
Richard Edward Dennett was born in Valparaiso, Chile in 1857. He was the son of Reverend R. Dennett MA DCL (1829 to 1908), who was a rector and private patron of Ashton Church near Chudleigh, Devon, for sixteen years from...
$16.25
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 travelogue written by Robert Campbell, recounting his journey among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa in 1859-60. The book provides a detailed account of Campbell's experiences, observations, and encounters with the people,...
$38.95
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...
$23.95
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: An Account Of A Journey Among The Egbas And Yorubas Of Central Africa, In 1859-60 (1861) is a book written by Robert Campbell. The book is a detailed account of the author's journey to his...
$23.95
A Pilgrimage To My Motherland: An Account Of A Journey Among The Egbas And Yorubas Of Central Africa, In 1859-60 (1861)
""A Pilgrimage To My Motherland"" is a travelogue written by Robert Campbell, detailing his journey among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa in 1859-60. Campbell provides a vivid account of his experiences, describing the people, customs, and landscapes he...
$38.95
A Pilgrimage to My Motherland: An Account of a Journey Among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa, in 1859-60
This travelogue is a fascinating account of Robert Campbell's journey through Central Africa in the late 19th century. Campbell provides a detailed description of his encounters with the Egba and Yoruba people, their culture, and customs. He reflects on the...
$31.95
A Pilgrimage to my Motherland: An Account of a Journey Among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa, in 1859-60 (paperback)
A Pilgrimage to my Motherland - An Account of a Journey Among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa, in 1859-60 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1861. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different...
$22.98
A Pilgrimage to My Motherland. An Account of a Journay Among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa, in 1859-60
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...
$22.98
A Pilgrimage to My Motherland. An Account of a Journay Among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa, in 1859-60
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...
$18.95