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‘Ifá_ A Forest of Mystery
Ifá is a philosophy, a theogony, theology and cosmology rooted in a particular metaphysic that concerns itself with the real...
History, Yoruba History
1902 Northern Nigeria Report
This report was written on my way home last May, and I very much regret the delay which occurred in...
Geo-Politics, History, Nigerian History, Politics, Religion
1958 London Conference
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Demo, Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History
A Civilised Savagery Britain And...
This book is about the British campaigns against the new slaveries of European imperialism in Africa in the late nineteenth...
Demo, Geo-Politics, History, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History
A Cultural History of the...
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820, explores the idea that strong linkages exist in the histories of Africa,...
History
A Dictionary of the Yoruba...
The first Dictionary of the Yoruba language was published in the year 1843, compiled by Samuel (afterwards Bishop) Crowther. This...
Demo, History, Literature, Yoruba History
A History Of Nigeria
Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country and the world’s eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in...
History, Nigerian History, Politics
A History Of The Yoruba...
A History of the Yoruba People is a thorough examination of the origins and history of one of Africa's most...
History, Yoruba History
A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt
I know when I was born; I mean to say that there are some people who know when I was...
Demo, Drama, Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History
A Tropical Dependency
A TROPICAL DEPENDENCY It has become the habit of the British mind to think of the British Empire as a...
History, Nigerian History, Politics
African States Citizenship and war:...
This article, first given as a talk to a seminar of the Uganda Parliament in 2000, is a reflection on...
Geo-Politics, History, Literature
ANCIENT IFE: a Reassessment
ANCIENT IFE: A REASSESSMENT Author(s): ROBIN HORTON Source: Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria , JUNE 1979, Vol. 9,...
History, Yoruba History
Art and Risk in Ancient...
Ife History, Power, and Identity, c .1300 In this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk, and...
History, Yoruba History
Art in Ancient Ife, Birthplace...
Artists the world over shape knowledge and material into works of unique historical importance. The artists of ancient Ife, ancestral...
Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History
AWO – The Autobiography of...
‘Anything, though ever so little, which a man speaks of himself in my opinion is still too much.’ So says...
Autobiography, History, Icon, Nigerian History, Politics, Yoruba History
Awon Asa ati Orisa Ile...
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Demo, Geo-Politics, History, Literature, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History
Between the ethnic and the...
This study investigates the discursive construction and politicization of ethnic and other sub-national identities in Nigeria, starting from the post-WWII...
Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Politics
Between the ethnic and the...
This study investigates the discursive construction and politicization of ethnic and other sub-national identities in Nigeria, starting from the post-WWII...
Demo, Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History
Blier Cosmic References In Ancient...
THIS ESSAY CONSIDERS one of the most important Yoruba cosmological referents, the plan of the capital Ile- Ife and its...
Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Politics, Yoruba History
British Rule and Indigenous Organization...
THEORISTS of Indirect Rule assumed a relationship between colonial strategy and the degree of political development in African tribal societies.1...
Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Politics, Religion