"Leave the dead some room to dance," sings the Dirge-Man in Wole Soyinka's beautiful play, A Dance of the Forests....

The first Dictionary of the Yoruba language was published in the year 1843, compiled by Samuel (afterwards Bishop) Crowther. This...

I know when I was born; I mean to say that there are some people who know when I was...

This article, first given as a talk to a seminar of the Uganda Parliament in 2000, is a reflection on...

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This single volume of Encyclopedia of the Yorùbá is the very first to present materials on the Yorùbá in West...

Until quite recently, all the known historical traditions about the origin of the Eweka dynasty of Benin were unanimous in...

The history of many places tells the story of wars waged by the countries in question ...... (more…)

Ifá is a philosophy, a theogony, theology and cosmology rooted in a particular metaphysic that concerns itself with the real...

During my third extended research trip in Kétu, Bénin, in the fall of 2006, when I asked people to explain...

The Body and Other Parties: Stories. Carmen Maria Machado. From Everand. The Constant Gardener: A Novel. John le Carré. 268286630-Oruko-Yoruba-Adeoye...

Potsherd pavements have long been a subject of interest in the archaeology of West Africa (Nzewunwa 1989). In Yorubaland (western...

A study in comparative philosophy is based on two basic presuppositions. The first is a definition of philosophy, at least,...

THE MYTHS, LEGENDS, AND TALES IN THIS BOOK WERE GATHERED over a period of several years from Yoruba storytellers and...

RELATIONSHIP A family is termed Ebi or The word Ebi means "One born with." This includes one's nearest relatives on...

This collection of studies brings together in a single volume some of the results of the considerable body of recent...