Social Science
Social Science
Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa: Their Culture, History, Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Language, Etc.
The Yoruba speaking group inhabits Benin and Nigeria. This pioneering investigation, published in 1894, reveals the culture, history, spiritual beliefs and unique language of the Yoruba ethnicity. After introducing the region with maps and descriptions of the coast and its...
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The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria: Western Africa Part IV
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-coordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African...
$48.95
The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria: Western Africa Part IV
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-coordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African...
$177.00
Yoruba-Ondo Proverbs: A Study of Themes, Functions and Poetic Devices
This book examines some salient features of Ondo proverbs with special emphasis on the literary aspects by delving into the themes, functions and poetic devices which are also found in contemporary literature. According to a Malian proverb "when an old...
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Yoruba Trickster Tales
Yoruba Trickster Tales come out of the tradition of evening storytelling, a popular form of entertainment in traditional African societies. A favorite genre among these folktales is the trickster tale, variations of which are found in many cultures around the world....
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Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism
Exploring the Yoruba tradition in the United States, Hucks begins with the story of Nana Oseijeman Adefunmi's personal search for identity and meaning as a young man in Detroit in the 1930s and 1940s. She traces his development as an...
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YORUBA TRADITIONAL MEDICAL PRACTICES VERSUS ORTHODOX WESTERN MEDICINE
This book is written by an Orthodox Medicine Practitioner who has practised in an African setting for over 4 decades. Many of the African traditional practises have been discussed and compared with what obtains in Science-based Orthodox Medicine. Most of...
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Yoruba Proverbs (paperback)
Yoruba Proverbs is the most comprehensive collection to date of more than five thousand Yoruban proverbs that showcase Yoruba oral tradition. Following Oyekan Owomoyela’s introduction, which provides a framework and description of Yoruba cultural beliefs, the proverbs are arranged by theme...
$40.00
Yoruba Oral Tradition in Islamic Nigeria (paperback)
This book traces Dàdàkúàdá’s history and artistic vision and discusses its vibrancy as the most popular traditional Yoruba oral art form in Islamic Africa. Foregrounding the role of Dàdàkúàdá in Ilorin, and of Ilorin in Dàdàkúàdá the book covers the...
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Yoruba Oral Tradition in Islamic Nigeria
This book traces Dàdàkúàdá’s history and artistic vision and discusses its vibrancy as the most popular traditional Yoruba oral art form in Islamic Africa. Foregrounding the role of Dàdàkúàdá in Ilorin, and of Ilorin in Dàdàkúàdá the book covers the...
$64.95
Yoruba Myths
This collection of myths – some of them simple, strong pieces of narrative, others mysterious, poetic and often amusing – illustrate the religion and thought of the West African Yoruba People. Interspersed with drawings by Georgina Beier of Yoruba motifs...
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Yoruba Mythology: Captivating Myths and Legends of the Yoruba and Other West African Peoples
Do you like stories about kings and queens, spirits and monsters, or tricksters and villains? If so, this book is for you. Containing delightful stories from the Yoruba and other West African peoples, this book presents tales of courage and...
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Yoruba lernen für Anfänger, meine ersten 1000 Wörter: Zweisprachiges Yoruba-Deutsch-Lernbuch für Kinder und Erwachsene
Dieses Buch ist dazu gedacht, Ihnen dabei zu helfen, die Grundlagen der Yoruba Sprache zu lernen. Die Größe und die bunten Bilder sind perfekt dazu geeignet, Yoruba Wörter zu lernen.Es umfasst alle wichtigen Themen: Die wichtigsten Verben, Adjektive und Adverbien...
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Yoruba Legends And Their History (Paperback)
The legendary of the Yoruba tribe is widely known. Ogumefu's book shows a glimpse of the richness of the culture and beliefs.
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Yoruba Legends (paperback)
Large Print Edition. The charming, traditional folk tales and legends of the Yoruba people of West Africa. The Yoruba people inhabit a large area of West Africa, primarily in southern Nigeria, Benin and Togo. They are united by language and...
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Yoruba in Diaspora: An African Church in London
The Nigerian diaspora is now world-wide, and when Yoruba travel, they take with them their religious organizations. As a member of the Cherubim and Seraphim church in London for over thirty years, anthropologist Hermione Harris explores a world of prayer,...
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The Yoruba God of Drumming: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wood That Talks
As one of the salient forces in the ritual life of those who worship the pre-Christian and Muslim deities called orishas, the Yorùbá god of drumming, known as Àyàn in Africa and Añá in Cuba, is variously described as the...
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The Yoruba God of Drumming: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wood That Talks (hardcover)
As one of the salient forces in the ritual life of those who worship the pre-Christian and Muslim deities called orishas, the Yorùbá god of drumming, known as Àyàn in Africa and Añá in Cuba, is variously described as the...
$144.00
Yoruba Folktales
The author ranks as one of the foremost living traditional African storytellers - as recognized by the acclaim of his first book, The Palmvine Drinkard. This book includes seven folktales especially for young adults, but of universal appeal. Beautiful black...
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Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery
In this book you will learn how to break the chains of your mental slavery by ordering this new book by one of the world's outstanding experts on the African-American mind.
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The Yoruba Diaspora In The Atlantic World (paperback)
This innovative anthology focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yoruba. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this anthology will allow students to trace the experiences of one...
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Yoruba Culture and Religion as panacea for National Ethical Problems
Nigeria is beleaguered with some many moral/ethical problems. Such problems include examination malpractices/fake certificates, advance fee fraud (419), drug addiction and abuse, drug trafficking, human trafficking, bribery and corruption, adultery and prostitution, fake products, armed robbery, kidnapping/ritual killings, terrorism, abortion,...
$53.99
The Yoruba: A New History (paperback)
The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small corner of the Niger-Benue Confluence in present-day Nigeria to becoming one of the most populous cultural groups...
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The Yoruba: A New History (hardcover)
The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small corner of the Niger-Benue Confluence in present-day Nigeria to becoming one of the most populous cultural groups...
$144.00
Where Women Work: A Study of Yoruba Women in the Marketplace and in the Home (Anthropological Papers Series) (Vol. 53)
Niara Sudarkasa reports on Yoruba women and their role as traders in Nigeria’s marketing system. During Sudarkasa’s 15-month fieldwork in western Nigeria, she spoke with hundreds of traders, men and women, in order to understand the Yoruba markets, the division...
$33.00
What the forest told me: Yoruba hunter, culture and narrative performance
Studies of Yoruba culture and performance tend to focus mainly on standardized forms of performance, and ignore the more prevalent performance culture which is central to everyday life. What the Forest Told Me conveys the elastic nature of African cultural expression through...
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Using the Hijab as an Instrument of Social Change Among the Yoruba Muslims
Scientific Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Theology - Islamic theology, course: LANGUAGES SECTION, language: English, abstract: The concept of change has, of recent, become a mantra echoed in all areas of life in this part of the...
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Unshared Identity: Posthumous Paternity in a Contemporary Yoruba Community (African Humanities)
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Unshared Identity: Posthumous Paternity in a Contemporary Yoruba Community (African Humanities)
Unshared Identity employs the practice of posthumous paternity in Ilupeju-Ekiti, a Yoruba-speaking community in Nigeria, to explore endogenous African ways of being and meaning-making that are believed to have declined when the Yoruba and other groups constituting present-day Nigeria were preyed...
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American Neutrality: Its Cause And Cure (1916)
American Neutrality: Its Cause And Cure is a book written by James Mark Baldwin and published in 1916. The book explores the concept of American neutrality during World War I and argues that the United States should abandon its policy...
$23.95
Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture
2014 Locus Awards Finalist, Nonfiction Category In this hip, accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism, author Ytasha Womack introduces readers to the burgeoning community of artists creating Afrofuturist works, the innovators from the past, and the...
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