Yoruba


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Intermediate Yoruba


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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 culture. For this reason, Intermediate Yoruba covers various Yoruba cultural traditions, names, greetings, and oral traditions, as well as the use of myths, fables, and idiomatic expressions. It includes a vocabulary list, along with everyday Yoruba conversational words and phrases that, in some cases, sound like their English, French, and Spanish equivalents. This comprehensive volume is ideal for both classroom instruction and private teaching sessions. Additionally, Intermediate Yoruba includes a series of case studies and juxtaposed ethnographic materials to cover Yoruba culture thoroughly. Intended to contribute to the development of the positive study of African languages and cultures, this volume serves as a valuable resource to anyone wishing to learn about Yoruba.




Olórò, The Grand Son Of Fadeyi Olóró


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Olórò, the grandson of Fádèyí Olóró chronicles the story of a Sub-Saharan African country- Naijaland. A country balkanised and plagued with a vicious cycle of internecine crisis along tribal and religious lines, resulting in the desecration of its land and the waste of lives. It becomes obvious that its travails will not go away until a steadfast solution is devised.




Odù


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Deaf Way Two Anthology


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Cover -- title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Curtis Robbins -- No Rhythm, They Say -- Empty Ears -- Solo Dining While Growing Up -- Learning Up Front -- About the Tale of an Old Bay Fisherman -- Hand Tied -- Melissa Whalen -- The Noisy House -- Christopher Jon Heuer -- The Hands of My Father -- Bone Bird -- Diving Bell -- Holiday -- Corresponding Oval -- Listening for the Same Thing -- Carmen Cristiu -- Leaves on the Water -- Is It a Sin? -- My Mother -- Gaynor Young -- My Plunge to Fame -- John Lee Clark -- Q -- Exuberance -- Carl Wayne Denney -- Borrowed Time -- Sibylle Gurtner May -- "if I could wish to hear well"--Sotonwa Opeoluwa -- The Victim of the Silent Void -- Douglas Bullard -- Yet: Jack Can Hear! -- Pamela Wright-Meinhardt -- When They Tell Me ... -- Silent Howl -- A Letter to C.F. -- Kristi Merriweather -- Be Tellin' Me -- Remember -- It Was His Movin' Hands -- Raymond Luczak -- How to Become a Backstabber -- Depths of the River -- Justine Vogenthaler -- Between Two Worlds -- Cicadas Roar -- 2 Triple Ought -- Willy Conley -- Every Man Must Fall -- Salt in the Basement -- The Cycle of the X-Ray Technician -- The Perfect Woman -- Tonya Marie Stremlau -- A Nice Romantic Dinner




ỌLỌ́BÙN: Matriarch Of Ondo, Mother Of Legacy


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'ỌLỌ́BÙN: Matriarch Of Ondo, Mother Of Legacy' is a captivating play set against the backdrop of the 15th century. The story immerses the audience in the dramatic events surrounding the birth of twins to Alaafin Oluaso and his Olori. In an era where twins were perceived as abominations and subjected to immediate execution, Alaafin Oluaso faces a heart-wrenching dilemma. Unable to order the demise of his own flesh and blood, Alaafin seeks an alternative through consultation with Ifa, the oracle. Ifa proposes a solution: exile the twins and their mother from Oyo. But the deity poses a profound question - will they be allowed to survive? The narrative unfolds into a journey fifilled with death, adventure, hope, politics, supernatural influences, and the birth of an unshakable legacy that is the great Ondo Kingdom we recognise today. Olobun is proof of the indomitable nature of legacy born from destiny.




Understanding Yoruba Life and Culture


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With a population of about thirty million, the Yoruba people constitute one of the largest single ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa. They are internationally acclaimed for their high art, complex system of government, religion, and philosophy. This multi-authored book written by distinguished scholars like Ayo Bamgbose, Toyin Falola, Stephen Akintoye, Omofolabo Soyinka-Ajayi, Emmanuel Babatunde, H.O. Danmole, Akinbiyi Akinlabi, and Agbo Folarin, is the first of its kind to cover all the important topics and issues in Yoruba culture. Who were the Yoruba? Where did they come from? What is Yoruba society like? What is the role of women in the society? What is the nature of their art forms? What is Yoruba philosophy? These questions and many more are answered in this significant book. (Back cover).







Àgbékà Ọrọ Yoruba


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Just Before Dawn


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Kole Omotoso, one of Nigeria's major writers, is always provocative. His writing is informed by a passionate concern for society and politics in Nigeria. This major work is a blend of fact and fiction dramatizing the first one hundred years of Nigeria. Most of the characters and incidents inthe book are real; the narrative is conceived and written as a novel. The story covers riots, uprisings, private hopes and griefsand coup d'etats -a history marred by violence, with an outcome satisfactory to none. The book was received as a major contribution to African writing, in its innovative style, and was awarded Special Commendation in the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa in 1989 , which described it as providing a more profound understanding than is available in conventional history books and novels.