Author: Mike Omoleye
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Author: Harold Courlander
Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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"Myths, legends and heroic tales of the Yoruba people of West Africa"--Cover subtitle.

Author: Oyekan Owomoyela
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803286115
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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A collection of twenty-three tales involving Aj'ap'a, a tortoise with human traits who has relationships with an assortment of animal and human characters

Author: Stephen Adebanji Akintoye
Publisher: Amalion Publishing
ISBN: 2359260278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 734

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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.

Author: Amos Tutuola
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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The author ranks as one of the foremost living traditional African storytellers - as recognised 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 and white ink drawings illustrate the tales whose cast of characters include humans, a goddess, an elephant woman, a boa constrictor and a shell-man.

Author: B. A. M. I. Ogumefu
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465517324
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Author: D.O. Fagunwa
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
ISBN: 0872866300
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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The first novel written in the Yoruba language and one of the first to be written in any African language.

Author: A.B. Ellis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000858030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa (1894) is an important work of in-depth research into one of the principal indigenous communities of West Africa. The territory of the Yoruba peoples extends over the southern parts of western Nigeria and eastern Dahomey, and this book examines their religion, customs, laws and language, and contains an extensive appendix comparing the Tshi (Oji), Gã, Ewe and Yoruba languages.

Author: Kemi Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk-lore, Yoruba
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Yoruba eventyr, myter og legender fra Nigeria. Også for voksne

Author: Phillis Gershator
Publisher: Orchard Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780531088739
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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When Ear, Leg, and Arm refuse to marry Mosquito, she shows them that she is not to be ignored.