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Author: Kemi Morgan
Publisher:
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Category : Folk-lore, Yoruba
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Yoruba eventyr, myter og legender fra Nigeria. Også for voksne
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: B. A. M. I. Ogumefu
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465517324
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Author: Kemi Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789780291167
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Various
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1907256830
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
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NOTE: This book has been illustrated and published by the students of Edgbarrow School in Berkshire, England as a special project to raise funds for their Ghana Sponsorship campaign. DESCRIPTION: The Yoruba people are descendants from a variety of West African communities. They are united by Geography, History, Religion and most importantly their Language. In this volume you will find 31 stories and tales like: AKITI THE HUNTER, SONS OF STICKS, WHY WOMEN HAVE LONG HAIR THE LEOPARD-MAN, THE COOKING POT and many more. You also will find a further nine stories of the adventures of Tortoise and the many mischievous things he gets up to. Many years ago, before the advent of the West African slave trade, the Yoruba people inhabited an area which stretched, along the coast of West Africa, all the way inward and down to Angola in South West Africa. Today this is not the case. The legends and fairy stories in this book belong to the Yoruba. They relate the adventures of men and animals, and try to explain the mysteries of Nature-Why Women have Long Hair, How the Leopard got his Spots, the Three Magicians, the Boa-Constrictor, How the Elephant got his Trunk and more. These stories grew from the imagination of the people. We read these folk-tales for their quaintness and humour, for their sympathy with Nature, and because we find in them the ideas and ideals, not just of one man, but of a race of people. In modern times we have begun paying close attention to folklore - old tales, not invented by one man, but belonging to the whole people; not written down, but told by parents to their children, and so handed on for hundreds of years. The legends express primitive notions of right and wrong. As a rule, the wicked are punished and the good rewarded; and that, we feel, is as it should be. We may weep at the death of rascally Tortoise, but we may also feel that he somehow has deserved his fate!
Author: Oladele Olusanya
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984543016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Gods and Heroes is the first volume of the Itan—Legends of the Golden Age trilogy about the thousand-year story of the Yoruba people. It starts with the establishment of Ile-Ife by Oduduwa and the great sacrifice of the heroine Moremi. The ancient gods of Yorubaland, Obatala, Orunmila, Ogun, and Olokun all play their part, as well as the great heroes and heroines of antiquity—Oranmiyan, Sango, Oya, Oba Esigie of Benin, and Obanta of Ijebuland. The author uses the genre of the historical novel in a refreshing and imaginative fashion to present the whole tableau of Yoruba history. The result is a vast and rich panorama enlivened with traditional myths and legends seen through the eyes of a single Yoruba family and the Old Woman, the fabled storyteller.
Author: Aribidesi Usman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107064600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
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A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.
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: Ulli Beier
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521229951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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This mysterious, poetic and often amusing collection of myths illustrates the religion and thought of the West African Yoruba People.
Author: John Wyndham
Publisher: Rolled Scroll Publishing
ISBN: 9781952900099
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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This short book is a translation of some of the myths of the Yoruba people of Nigeria. It is a history of the creation of the world, the gods, and humanity, and the early days of the sacred city of Ífè, the traditional center of Yoruba culture. The text was recited to the author/translator by the high priests of Ífè, and the book is still cited in some books on traditional Yoruba religion and thought today. It has undeservedly become quite rare, as it can be considered a minor classic in the field.
Author: Olola Olabode Ogunlana
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992686369
Category : Remo (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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"There is a rich tradition of storytelling within Yoruba culture, with stories passed down through the generations but never written down .... This book sets out to present a particular sub-group of these: oral stories which have some kind of historical basis, handed down in the Ogere-Remo area (now in Ogun State) in the Remo dialect of Yoruba."--Page 10.
