Sixteen Great Poems of Ifa is a book that provides knowledge on sixteen long poems from the Ifa literary corpus that serve as the most important genres of Yoruba oral tradition.
The work is a meticulous effort of the author to preserve, publicize and promote the outstanding ingredients of Yoruba culture.
The Yoruba people consider Ifa as the great authority of mythology, history, and philosophy, and indeed an unwritten textbook of Yoruba culture hence, this book is presented in Yoruba language with English translation and sufficient annotation for easy understanding.
Adequate information of Ifa cult, its paraphernalia of divination, interpretation for each poem as supplied by the Ifa priests from whom the poems are gathered are provided to augment the knowledge of the reader about each poem.