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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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African Medicine: A Complete Guide to Yoruba Healing Science and African Herbal Remedies
A combination of West African Healing Wisdom, spirituality, and modern science, presents a self-care healing guide in which Concepts such as Orisha Energies form the basis for diagnosis and treatment of chronic illnesses that most frequently threatened balanced health. The...
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Abbeokuta Or Sunrise Within The Tropics: An Outline Of The Origin And Progress Of The Yoruba Mission (1855) Hardcover
Abbeokuta or Sunrise Within the Tropics: An Outline of the Origin and Progress of the Yoruba Mission is a historical book written by Sarah Tucker in 1855. The book provides a detailed account of the establishment and development of the...
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Abbeokuta Or Sunrise Within The Tropics: An Outline Of The Origin And Progress Of The Yoruba Mission (1855) paperback
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available...
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Abbeokuta: Or, Sunrise Within the Tropics: an Outline of the Origin and Progress of the Yoruba Mission (hardcover)
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...
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Abbeokuta: Or, Sunrise Within the Tropics: an Outline of the Origin and Progress of the Yoruba Mission (paperback)
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...
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Babalawo: The Secrets of Afro-Cuban Ifa
Cuban Ifá From An Insider Hidden within the mysterious Afro-Cuban religion of Santería, also known as Lucumí, there is a deep body of secrets and rituals called Ifá. This book pulls away the veil of secrecy to reveal exactly what...
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Blacks and Religion Volume Two: What did Black People contribute to the Origin and Evolution of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, the Indian Religions, and the New Religious Movements?
Religion can be a major source of conflict and controversy between individuals, peoples, nations and races. However, what all the major religions agree upon is their unified efforts to downplay, disregard, and remove the role of Black people from their...
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Blacks and Science Volume Two: West and East African Contributions to Science and Technology AND Intellectual Life and Legacy of Timbuktu
Blacks and Science Volume Two Did YOU know any of the following facts? o The Bamoun Kingdom, now in today’s Cameroon, has 7,000 surviving manuscripts in their own script o Timbuktu astronomers used the cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant and cosecant...
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THE PROPHECIES, The Book of the Hebrew Israelites, Book Two
(THE PROPHECIES)THE BOOK OF THE HEBREW ISRAELITES, BOOK TWOFROM THE KING JAMES BIBLE (KJV 1611)WRITTEN & PRESENTED BY AUTHOR: J.R.WILLIS(THE PROPHECIES, THE BOOK OF THE HEBREW ISRAELITES, BOOK TWO), is a book that was written for the Israelites of our...
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Wild Imperfections: An Anthology of Womanist Poems
Featuring the work of Black women poets from Botswana to Brazil, in this collection, we encounter ancestors who made love, just for the sake of love, and women who die with each orgasm while attempting to mark the extent of...
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The Whispering Trees (Cassava Shorts)
The magical tales in The Whispering Trees capture the essence of life, death and coincidence in Northern Nigeria. Myth and reality intertwine in stories featuring political agitators, newly-wedded widows, and the tormented whirlwind, Kyakkyawa. The two medicine men of Mazade...
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Unbury Our Dead With Song
"Part mystery, part road novel, part philosophical enquiry, [this] is a dazzling journey to discover the meaning of music and its immense power over the human soul." – Aminatta Forna, author of Happiness and The Devil that Danced on the Water "Unbury Our...
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A Stranger's Pose
Through stories remembered and imagined, and images by acclaimed photographers, A Stranger's Pose draws the reader into a world of encounters in more than a dozen African towns. Iduma blends memoir, travelogue and storytelling in these fragments of a traveler's...
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Outriders Africa: Essays on Exploration and Return
It is Spring 2020, and 10 writers of African heritage, travelling in pairs, set out on journeys across Africa. It is a strange time to be travelling, and the shifting state of the world is reflected in temperature checks at...
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Accra Noir
Accra joins Lagos, Nairobi, Marrakech, and Addis Ababa in representing the African continent in the Noir Series arena. “Superb . . . Each story reaffirms how fundamental ‘place’ is to the noir genre and how the locale shapes the story...
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In Dependence
"A graceful and astonishing achievement.” – Henry Louis Gates Jr. "In Dependence, is a riveting love story across the challenges of race, geography and scars of colonial history." – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o "A beautiful and ambitious novel" – Bernardine Evaristo,...
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Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation
What do you get when dare-devil Jihadists, mad English missionaries and proud, stubborn, warring natives meet in a clash? Nigeria. Formation: From Jihad to Amalgamation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that turned a collection of disparate nations into...
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Birds of West Africa: A Child's Guide
Birds of Our Land is a child's guide to West African birds with the aim of introducing children to some of the many fascinating birds that they may not be familiar with. It explains the basic features of birds and key...
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Iwure Healing Power of Prayer by Baba YEMI ELEBUIBON
Invisible Powers of the Metaphysical World: a peep into the world of witchesVery informative book about witches, wizards and their craft and powers.
**Important note: This is an import book, and may have fading pages and may be difficult to read...
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Black Man of The Nile (paperback)
Black Man of the Nile and His Family, first published in 1972, is Dr. Ben's best known work. It captures much of the substance of his early research on ancient Africa. In a masterful and unique manner, Dr. Ben uses...
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Kindezi: The Kongo Art of Babysitting
The authors present the importance of this African tradition. Kindezi (the art of babysitting) and the ndezi (the babysitters) provide extensive value and service to both society and the individual child, making for a cohesive, unified community.
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Year of Fire, Year of Ash: The Soweto Schoolchildren’s Revolt that Shook Apartheid
'We can say without fear of being contradicted by history, that June 16, 1976 heralded the beginning of the end of the centuries-old white rule in this country.'Nelson MandelaOriginally banned on publication by the apartheid government, Year of Fire, Year of...
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