Author: Wale Owoeye
Publisher: Pipit Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
VINTAGE YORUBA PROVERBS (Owe Ile Yoruba) is a collection of wise sayings from Yoruba tribe of West Africa featured with English translation for the understanding of global readers. Full of wisdom and lyricism, it is a classic heritage from the heart of Africa.
Vintage Yoruba Proverbs
Author: Wale Owoeye
Publisher: Pipit Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
VINTAGE YORUBA PROVERBS (Owe Ile Yoruba) is a collection of wise sayings from Yoruba tribe of West Africa featured with English translation for the understanding of global readers. Full of wisdom and lyricism, it is a classic heritage from the heart of Africa.
Publisher: Pipit Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
VINTAGE YORUBA PROVERBS (Owe Ile Yoruba) is a collection of wise sayings from Yoruba tribe of West Africa featured with English translation for the understanding of global readers. Full of wisdom and lyricism, it is a classic heritage from the heart of Africa.
VINTAGE YORUBA PROVERBS (Òwe Ilẹ̀ Yorúbá)
Author: Wale Sasamura Owoeye
Publisher: Oysters Press
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : yo
Pages : 30
Book Description
VINTAGE YORUBA PROVERBS (Òwe Ilẹ̀ Yorúbá) VOLUME 2 continues the collection of wise sayings from Yoruba tribe of West Africa featured with English translation and short explanatory notes for the understanding and enjoyment of global readers. Full of wisdom, poetry and unrivaled beauty, enjoy and share the classic heritage from the heart of Africa.
Publisher: Oysters Press
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : yo
Pages : 30
Book Description
VINTAGE YORUBA PROVERBS (Òwe Ilẹ̀ Yorúbá) VOLUME 2 continues the collection of wise sayings from Yoruba tribe of West Africa featured with English translation and short explanatory notes for the understanding and enjoyment of global readers. Full of wisdom, poetry and unrivaled beauty, enjoy and share the classic heritage from the heart of Africa.
Akudaya
Author: Wale Sasamura Owoeye
Publisher: Oysters Press
ISBN: 1535334940
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
AKUDAYA (Living-Wraith) is a book about supernatural entity reputed to live on as an incarnate being in a place after being concurrently affirmed as a dead person in another place. The phenomenon occupies a central place in Yoruba cultural traditions regarding reincarnation and mysterious sightings. Alternatively referred to as "Abarameji" in Yoruba culture, this well researched monograph spotlights features and significance of the mysterious phenomenon that affects awe and fear amongst Yoruba people and wherever its variant is found in the global culture.
Publisher: Oysters Press
ISBN: 1535334940
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
AKUDAYA (Living-Wraith) is a book about supernatural entity reputed to live on as an incarnate being in a place after being concurrently affirmed as a dead person in another place. The phenomenon occupies a central place in Yoruba cultural traditions regarding reincarnation and mysterious sightings. Alternatively referred to as "Abarameji" in Yoruba culture, this well researched monograph spotlights features and significance of the mysterious phenomenon that affects awe and fear amongst Yoruba people and wherever its variant is found in the global culture.
EJIRE (MYTHICAL TWINS)
Author: Wale Owoeye
Publisher: Oysters Press
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
EJIRE (MYTHICAL TWINS) is a monograph about the phenomenon of twins and their deification as cognized and practiced in Yoruba culture. The book in concise headings explore the spiritual, artistic and modernist aspects of the Ibeji tradition, highlighting its peculiarities and the special place twins occupy in the scheme of traditional society. Featured with illustration, the book is written by foremost Neo Negritudian, Wale Sasamura Owoeye.
Publisher: Oysters Press
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
EJIRE (MYTHICAL TWINS) is a monograph about the phenomenon of twins and their deification as cognized and practiced in Yoruba culture. The book in concise headings explore the spiritual, artistic and modernist aspects of the Ibeji tradition, highlighting its peculiarities and the special place twins occupy in the scheme of traditional society. Featured with illustration, the book is written by foremost Neo Negritudian, Wale Sasamura Owoeye.
Elere-Omo
Author: Wale Sasamura Owoeye
Publisher: Oysters Press
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Elere-Omo (The Spirit-Child) is a monograph made to espouse an aspect of Yoruba culture relating to persons fated to have alliance with spiritual confraternity that have influence on their corporeal existence on earth. Alternatively referred to as Abiku, Emere or Elegbe-Omo, the phenomenon of persons having predetermined ties with extra-terrestrial confraternity that exacts devotion and propitiation from the spirit-child is still extant in Africa and in the Diaspora. It is hoped that at the end of this highly insightful book, the reader will emerge more enlightened about these special class of children gifted to the world for special purposes.
Publisher: Oysters Press
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Elere-Omo (The Spirit-Child) is a monograph made to espouse an aspect of Yoruba culture relating to persons fated to have alliance with spiritual confraternity that have influence on their corporeal existence on earth. Alternatively referred to as Abiku, Emere or Elegbe-Omo, the phenomenon of persons having predetermined ties with extra-terrestrial confraternity that exacts devotion and propitiation from the spirit-child is still extant in Africa and in the Diaspora. It is hoped that at the end of this highly insightful book, the reader will emerge more enlightened about these special class of children gifted to the world for special purposes.
Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria
Author: Wale Adebanwi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107054222
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107054222
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria.
Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere
Author: Oyeronke Olajubu
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791486117
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Drawing on a wide range of oral and written sources, this book shows that women occupy a central place in the religious worldview and life of the Yoruba people and shows how men and women engage in mutually beneficial roles in the Yoruba religious sphere. It explores how gender issues play out in two Yoruba religious traditions—indigenous religion and Christianity in Southwestern Nigeria. Rather than shy away from illuminating the tensions between the prominent roles of Yoruba women in religion and their perceived marginalization, author Oyeronke Olajubu underscores how Yoruba women have challenged marginalization in ways unprecedented in other world religions.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791486117
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Drawing on a wide range of oral and written sources, this book shows that women occupy a central place in the religious worldview and life of the Yoruba people and shows how men and women engage in mutually beneficial roles in the Yoruba religious sphere. It explores how gender issues play out in two Yoruba religious traditions—indigenous religion and Christianity in Southwestern Nigeria. Rather than shy away from illuminating the tensions between the prominent roles of Yoruba women in religion and their perceived marginalization, author Oyeronke Olajubu underscores how Yoruba women have challenged marginalization in ways unprecedented in other world religions.
Yoruba Proverbs
Author: Oyekan Owomoyela
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803204957
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
"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 into five sections: the good person; the fortunate person (or the good life); relationships; human nature; rights and responsibilities; and truisms. Each proverb is presented in Yoruba with a literal English translation, followed by a brief commentary explaining the meaning of the proverb within the oral tradition." "This definitive source book on Yoruba proverbs is the first to give such detailed, systematic classification and analysis alongside a careful assessment of the risks and pitfalls of submitting this genre to the canons of literary analysis."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803204957
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
"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 into five sections: the good person; the fortunate person (or the good life); relationships; human nature; rights and responsibilities; and truisms. Each proverb is presented in Yoruba with a literal English translation, followed by a brief commentary explaining the meaning of the proverb within the oral tradition." "This definitive source book on Yoruba proverbs is the first to give such detailed, systematic classification and analysis alongside a careful assessment of the risks and pitfalls of submitting this genre to the canons of literary analysis."--BOOK JACKET.
UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. I, Abridged Edition
Author: Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520066960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
"This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520066960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
"This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description
Travels in West Africa
Author: Mary H. Kingsley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
As a dutiful Victorian daughter, the author was thirty before being freed (by her parents' deaths) to do as she chose. She went to West Africa in 1893 and again in 1895, to investigate the beliefs and customs of the inland tribes and also to collect zoological specimens. She was appalled by the 'thin veneer of rubbishy white culture' imposed by British officials and was not afraid to say so.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
As a dutiful Victorian daughter, the author was thirty before being freed (by her parents' deaths) to do as she chose. She went to West Africa in 1893 and again in 1895, to investigate the beliefs and customs of the inland tribes and also to collect zoological specimens. She was appalled by the 'thin veneer of rubbishy white culture' imposed by British officials and was not afraid to say so.