Social Science
Social Science
Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities
Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Òyótúnjí African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the third the establishment of an ancient Yorùbá Empire in the state of South Carolina. Located sixty-five miles...
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The Osiris Papers: Reflections on the Life and Writings of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
The Osiris Papers: Reflections on the Life and Writings of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing is intended to be the first of many treatises written to examine the life, theories, and contributions of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing. Some of these writings will...
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Fetha Nagast: Law of the Kings
Ethiopian ancient law; governing the royalty, nobility, and clergy of Ethiopia for centuries.
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
“One of the most frank and searing discussions on race ... a deeply serious, urgent book, which should take its place in the tradition of Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and King's Why We Can't Wait." ―The New York Times Book ReviewToni Morrison...
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Kingdoms of the Yoruba (Studies in African History)
Originally published in 1969 and as a second edition in 1976, this book gives a general account of the major Yoruba kingdoms and provides a synthesis of Yoruba and Igbomina history, culture and archaeology. The reasons for, and the chronology...
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Intermediate Yoruba: Language, Culture, Literature, and Religious Beliefs, Part II
Intermediate Yoruba offers an effective guide to mastering Yoruba quickly and easily, written in the proper Yoruba-Oyo, by author Abraham Ajibade Adeleke, who was born and raised in Oyo Alaafin. Yoruba grammar is best taught in the context of the Yoruba...
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An Integrative Notion of Punishment in Traditional Yoruba culture: An hermeneutics discourse
Punishment constitutes a means of maintaining social order. But the traditional justification of punishment, utilitarian and retributive, is challenged by proportional gravitation and the aversion to punishing the innocent, among others. Thus this book addresses these problems, through the aid...
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INDIGO TEXTILE DYEING IN SOME SELECTED YORUBA TOWNS IN NIGERIA: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
INDIGO TEXTILE DYEING IN SOME SELECTED YORUBA TOWNS IN NIGERIA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY is based on the technology behind the indigo textile dyeing in some selected towns in South-western Nigeria from the anthropological perspective. It furthers compared the processes of...
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
The Confessions of Nat Turner, told in his own words as related at his trial, is an inspiring and powerful account of the leader of the most significant slave rebellion in American history. A gripping and vivid narrative of Turner's...
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The Pimp's Bible: The Sweet Science of Sin
These stories are as real as they come, they ain't no joking matter. It s a rude awakening to life, or an existence in the underworld- life underground another world, one of money, sex and drugs. This is life on...
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The History of the Yorubas: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate
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The History of the Yorubas: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate
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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The History of the Yorubas: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate
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The History of the Yorubas: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate
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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A History of the Yoruba People
A History of the Yoruba People is a comprehensive exploration of the founding and growth of one of the most influential groups in Africa. With a population of nearly 40 million spread across Western Africa - and diaspora communities in...
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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...
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The Gender Discourse in the Philosophy of Yoruba and Akan Societies
Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject Philosophy - Practical (Ethics, Aesthetics, Culture, Nature, Right, ...), grade: 1, University of Cape Coast (Centre for International Studies), course: African Philosophy, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this essay is...
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Evaluation of Development Communication Content of Yoruba Newspapers: Communicating Development in People's Language
This study investigated the Yoruba language newspaper, particularly, in relation to their development communication content. The study adopted, principally, the content analysis method, and as a supplement, stylistic analysis. The three newspapers content-analysed were: Gbohungbohun, Iroyin Yoruba and Isokan. Yoruba...
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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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Divining the Self: A Study in Yoruba Myth and Human Consciousness (Signifying (on) Scriptures)
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Divining the Self: A Study in Yoruba Myth and Human Consciousness (Signifying (on) Scriptures)
Divining the Self weaves elements of personal narrative, myth, history, and interpretive analysis into a vibrant tapestry that reflects the textured, embodied, and performative nature of scripture and scripturalizing practices. Velma Love examines the Odu―the Yoruba sacred scriptures―along with the accompanying...
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Dictionary Of The Yoruba Language Hardcover
Based upon the nineteenth century standard work on the Yoruba language, and first ever English-Yoruba, Yoruba-English dictionary, this new edition has been revised and enlarged considerably. The dictionary contains about 50,000 references and translations; Yoruba pronunciation guidance; examples of how...
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Diasporas and Ethnic Identities in Africa: The Edo ne Ekue among the Northeast Yoruba, 1485–1995
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Diasporas and Ethnic Identities in Africa: The Edo ne Ekue among the Northeast Yoruba, 1485–1995
Despite the enormous work on diasporas relating to Africa, the majority of this work focuses on trade diasporas located in West African groups, only mentioning the pre-colonial period in passing. Therefore, there is a need to redirect research on diasporas...
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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.
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Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé
Concentrating on the Caribbean Basin and the coastal area of northeast South America, Yvonne Daniel considers three African-derived religious systems that rely heavily on dance behavior--Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahamian Candomble. Combining her background in dance and anthropology to...
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Custom and Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns
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...
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Custom and Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns
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...
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Custom and Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns (Routledge Classic Ethnographies)
Based on Cohen's fieldwork in the 1960s among the Hausa migrants, a people of the Yoruba area (then the western region of the Federation of Nigeria), Custom and Politics in Urban Africa looks at how ethnic groups use elements of tradition in...
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Custom and Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns
A discussion of the process by which some ethnic groups manipulate values, myths, symbols and ceremonials from their traditional culture in order to develop an informal political organisation. This organisation is then used as a weapon in the struggle for...
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Civil Disorder Is The Disease Of Ibadan: Chieftaincy and Civic Culture in a Yoruba City (Western African Studies)
Civil Disorder Is the Disease of the Ibadan is a study of chieftaincy and political culture in Ibadan, the most populous city in Britain’s largest West African colony, Nigeria. Examining the period between 1829 and 1939, it shows how and why...
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Civil Disorder is the Disease of Ibadan: Chieftaincy and Civic Culture in a Yoruba City (Western African Studies)
Civil Disorder Is the Disease of the Ibadan is a study of chieftaincy and political culture in Ibadan, the most populous city in Britain’s largest West African colony, Nigeria. Examining the period between 1829 and 1939, it shows how and why...
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Butting Heads!: Testifying and Rescuing African Minds Worldwide With Traditional Yoruba Philosophy
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Butting Heads!: Testifying and Rescuing African Minds Worldwide With Traditional Yoruba Philosophy
This book serves as an intervention for African parents, educators, therapists, community leaders, and community program facilitators who either want to regain the cultural elements that were lost since the 1960s or who seek positive cultural values and mores that...
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