An Introduction to History and Culture of the Yorubas
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Yoruba (African people)
ISBN :
The Yoruba
Author : Akinwumi Ogundiran
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0253051509
Book Description
The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small corner of the Niger-Benue Confluence in present-day Nigeria to becoming one of the most populous cultural groups on the African continent. Weaving together archaeology with linguistics, environmental science with oral traditions, and material culture with mythology, Ogundiran examines the local, regional, and even global dimensions of Yoruba history. The Yoruba: A New History offers an intriguing cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and social history from ca. 300 BC to 1840. It accounts for the events, peoples, and practices, as well as the theories of knowledge, ways of being, and social valuations that shaped the Yoruba experience at different junctures of time. The result is a new framework for understanding the Yoruba past and present.
The History of the Yorubas from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : CSS Limited
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 43,17 MB
Release : 1921
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
First published in 1921, and cited on the Africa's Best 100 Books List, this is a standard work on the history of theYorubas from the earliest times to the beginning of the British Protectorate. The first part of the book discusses the people, theircountry and language, religion, government, land law, manners and customs. The second part is divided into four periods, dealing first with mytheological kings and deified heroes; with the growth, prosperity and oppression of the Yoruba people; the time of revolutionary wars and disruption; and, finally, the arrest of disintegration, inter-tribal wars, and the coming of the British. There are two appendices, on dealing with treaties and agreements, the other giving tables of Yoruba kings, rulers, and chiefs. The book also includes an index and map of the Yoruba country.
An Introduction to Yoruba History
Author : Joseph Adebowale Atanda
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Nigeria
ISBN :
Book Description
The Yoruba
Author : Akinwumi Ogundiran
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,71 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0253051525
Book Description
The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small corner of the Niger-Benue Confluence in present-day Nigeria to becoming one of the most populous cultural groups on the African continent. Weaving together archaeology with linguistics, environmental science with oral traditions, and material culture with mythology, Ogundiran examines the local, regional, and even global dimensions of Yoruba history. The Yoruba: A New History offers an intriguing cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and social history from ca. 300 BC to 1840. It accounts for the events, peoples, and practices, as well as the theories of knowledge, ways of being, and social valuations that shaped the Yoruba experience at different junctures of time. The result is a new framework for understanding the Yoruba past and present.
The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present
Author : Aribidesi Usman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1107064600
Book Description
A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.
Dress in the Making of African Identity: A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People
Author : Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1621967190
Book Description
This is a book on the social and cultural history of Yoruba people, a people in southwest Nigeria. As the first to provide a comprehensive treatment of Yoruba dress in historical perspective, this book is an important contribution to African history in general and the Yoruba cultural history in particular. The book illuminates the impact of Christianity, Islam, and British colonialism on the construction of Yoruba identity, and how dress was entangled in that construction. It also provides insightful discussions of the transformations in dress culture since independence and demonstrates the importance of dress as a site for contesting and articulating postcolonial Yoruba identity and class structure within the Nigerian national space. This book provides many insights into these issues and is thus an invaluable addition to Africana studies, anthropology, and history.
Milestones and Concepts in Yoruba History and Culture
Author : I. A. Akinjogbin
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Yoruba (African people)
ISBN :
Book Description
Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel
Author : Isaac Babalọla Thomas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2012-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004229159
Book Description
This volume presents an edition and translation of I.B. Thomas's pioneering work, "The Life-Story of Me, Segilola", first published as a series of realistic letters to a local Lagos newspaper in 1929-30, but now acclaimed as the first Yoruba novel.
Oduduwa's Chain
Author : Andrew Apter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 022650641X
Book Description
Herskovits's heritage -- Creolization and connaissance -- Notes from Ekitiland -- The blood of mothers -- Ethnogenesis from within -- Afterword: beyond the mirror of narcissus
