Africa
Africa
Ifism, Vols. 10, 11, 12, & 13: The Odus of Ogunda, Osa, Etura & Irete
In this volume, IFISM - The Complete Works of Orunmila. Volumes Ten-Eleven-Twelve-Thirteen, The Odu of Ogunda, Osa, Eutura and Irete, Mr. Cromwell Osamaro Ibie continues his revelations of the Odu (sacred text of Ifa). In addition to revealing the earthly...
$65.00
African Presence in Early Europe
This book places into perspective the role of the African in world civilization, in particular his little-known contributions to the advancement of Europe. A major essay on the evolution of the Caucasoid discusses recent scientific discoveries of the African fatherhood...
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Black Britannia: A History of Blacks in Britain (Paperback)
Paperback : 316 pages
Brawtley Caribbean Series
ISBN: 9781647540524
This book documents the role of Blacks in the social, economic, and cultural development of Britain from the seventeenth through the twentieth century.
$79.95
$49.95
Revelation: The Movement of the Akan People from Kanaan to Ghana
Paperback : 532 pages The book is an attempt to explain the true origin of the Akan race, their language and symbols in a format where many readers can learn about one of the richest treasures of the Afrikan...
$75.00
$65.00
BLACK MAN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND ITS WORLD HB
The third book in a 3-volume set, The Need for a Black Bible is a companion volume to African Origins of the Major Western Religions and The Myth of Genesis and Exodus and the Exclusion of Their African Origins.
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ESSAYS: ERO TI AKOSILE LORI ORO PATAKI
Publisher: Yoruba Theological Archministry
ISBN: 9781881244219
$25.00
Grammar And Dictionary Of The Yoruba Language: With An Introductory Description Of The Country And People Of Yoruba
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$32.95
Grammar And Dictionary Of The Yoruba Language
This comprehensive grammar and dictionary is an essential resource for anyone interested in the Yoruba language. It covers everything from basic sentence structure to the nuances of pronunciation and meaning. With clear explanations and numerous examples, it is the perfect...
$20.95
Grammar And Dictionary Of The Yoruba Language
This comprehensive grammar and dictionary is an essential resource for anyone interested in the Yoruba language. It covers everything from basic sentence structure to the nuances of pronunciation and meaning. With clear explanations and numerous examples, it is the perfect...
$32.95
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture
The Good, the Bad, and the BeautifulDiscourse about Values in Yoruba CultureBarry HallenReveals everyday language as the key to understanding morals and ethics in Yoruba culture."This contrasts with any suggestion that in Yoruba or, more generally, African society, moral thinking...
$33.00
Global Yorùbá: Regional and Diasporic Networks
In Global Yorùbá, renowned scholar Toyin Falola covers the history, people, traditions, environment, religion, spirituality, cosmology, culture, and philosophy of one of Africa's largest cultural groups, the Yorùbá, all while considering the people's relationship with their immediate and distant neighbors.Falola examines how...
$55.00
FULANI OPPRESS YORUBA: How Did We Get Under This Mess, and How Do We Get Out?
Attention! If you reside in the USA, Europe, or Canada, and are planning a visit to Yorubaland, this book is essential for you to understand the potential dangers. The current situation is far from safe! Why is that, you may...
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Fathers Work for Their Sons: Accumulation, Mobility, and Class Formation in an Extended Yoruba Community
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...
$133.00
Ancient Future
Ancient Future celebrates the wisdom of those ancient civilizations that did not disassociate the philosophical, spiritual, and material realms of life. This book is an attempt to re-create this holistic experience in hopes that a synthesized view of life will...
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Introduction to African Civilizations
Timely, relevant, and illuminating, this essential book by respected cultural historian, teacher, and author John G. Jackson sheds long overdue light on standard Eurocentric and distorting approaches to the history of Africa from early African civilizations to Africa’s significance in...
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Chaka
Chaka is a genuine masterpiece that represents one of the earliest major contributions from black Africa to the corpus of modern world literature. Mofolo's fictionalized life-story account of Chaka (Shaka), translated from Sesotho by D. P. Kunene, begins with the future...
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Mandela the Spear and Other Poems
The strength of Mandela the Spear and other Poems lies in Okai's burning desire to celebrate the black experience and culture, through the iconic figures who symbolize those struggles and triumphs. Thus, not surprisingly, one encounters names like Mandela, Nadine...
$19.50
Allah's Garden: A True Story of a Forgotten War in the Sahara Desert of Morocco
Allah's Garden is a true story of a Moroccan doctor's 25-year imprisonment in Sahara Desert. Told alongside the author's own time as a volunteer, the two stories combine to unveil secrets held deep within the desolate land known as "Allah's Garden."
$15.00
King Leopold's Ghost, 1st, First Edition
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its...
$15.95
The Development of Yoruba Candomble Communities in Salvador, Bahia, 1835-1986 (Afro-Latin@ Diasporas)
This project is an attempt to bring together the many fragments of history concerning the Yoruba religious community and their rise to prominence in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, from the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries.
$54.99
Culture, Politics, and Money Among the Yoruba
This masterful book investigates and analyzes several aspects of money among the Yoruba of Nigeria. Falola and Adebayo explore the origin, philosophy, uses, politics, and problems of acquiring and spending money in Yoruba culture. No prior book exists on this...
$170.00
CREATION STORY OF THE YORUBAS: Lyric Poems On Creation Story Of The Yorubas
Prologue The Yorubas are one of the ethnic groups of the people of South West of Nigeria. Yorubas are very rich in stories about religion and culture. Among these is the famous story of creation of earth by Oduduwa, and...
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Contributions Of Yoruba People In The Economic & Political Developments Of Nigeria
Contributions of Yoruba People in the Economic & Political Developments of Nigeria by Jacob Oluwatayo Adeuyan
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Arts of Being Yoruba: Divination, Allegory, Tragedy, Proverb, Panegyric (African Expressive Cultures)
There is a culturally significant way of being Yorùbá that is expressed through dress, greetings, and celebrations―no matter where in the world they take place. Adélékè Adék documents Yorùbá patterns of behavior and articulates a philosophy of how to be...
$44.00
Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power, and Identity, c. 1300
In this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk, and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife and the striking ways that ancient Ife artworks inform society, politics, history, and religion. Yoruba art...
$66.00
Ancient Echoes: A Modulation of Prose Music Culture and Yoruba Traditions
This book is a multiple resource for beginning students in liberal studies who need hands-on approach in studying African literature, art, religion, percussion, politics, and mythology. In spite of its diverse scope, the book has highlighted cogent issues, such as...
$22.99
Anagó: vocabulario lucumí: El yoruba que se habla en Cuba (Religión) (Spanish Edition)
Anagó: vocabulario lucumí. El yoruba que se habla en Cuba, de Lydia Cabrera y prologado por Roger Bastide, es junto al Catauro de cubanismos de Fernando Ortiz uno de los más completos vocabularios, o diccionario, de las lenguas de origen...
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AKONI: Yoruba
Akoni, born in Benin, is 12 years old, in 1770, in his village of Dabeya, growing up in the happiness of his family, son of King Djibali. Days are filled with innocent games and stories shared around the fire. Akoni...
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African Renaissance: Old Forms, New Images in Yoruba Art (Hardcover)
African Renaissance: Old Forms, New images in Yoruba Art describes, analyzes, and interprets the historical and cultural contexts of an African art renaissance using the twentieth- and twenty-first-century transformation of ancient Yoruba artistic heritage. Juxtaposing ancient and contemporary Yoruba art,...
$77.00
African Poems Volume One: Àṣẹ Òrìṣà!: A Praise Anthology to Yorùbá Orishas, Rituals, Traditions and Wisdom
In the literate tradition of poetry, the poet's appeal to an audience is dual: namely, auditory and visual, the sound of words as spoken, as well as the words as set on paper. Today, in view of the modern world...
$33.00