1958 London Conference
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...
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...
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...
Awon Asa ati Orisa Ile...
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...
City of Gods Ilé-Ifè in...
Many African and religious studies scholars who, like myself, have grown up in indigenous traditions and have been educated in...
DAHOMEY AND ITS NEIGHBOURS 1708-1818
This book grew out of a Ph.D. thesis submitted to the University of London in October 1963. Its aim is...
Encyclopedia Of The Yoruba
This single volume of Encyclopedia of the Yorùbá is the very first to present materials on the Yorùbá in West...
Everyday People Autochthony And Indigene...
Local markets in Nigerian cities are under-studied but ubiquitous and ancient sites of interethnic conflicts and cooperation of everyday people...
Eweka Dynasty
Until quite recently, all the known historical traditions about the origin of the Eweka dynasty of Benin were unanimous in...
History of Ekiti (From the...
Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Literature, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History
History of the Yorubas
Samuel Johnson (1846–1901) was an Anglican minister and historian renowned for his magisterial history of the Yoruba people. Born in Freetown in Sierra Leone...
Ibadan Empire — Toye Ogunyemi
In the beginning, ibadàn started as a settlement of some radicals from nearby Yorúbá towns. Historians do not completely agree...
If A Forest of Mystery
Ifá is a philosophy, a theogony, theology and cosmology rooted in a particular metaphysic that concerns itself with the real...
Ifa: An Exposition Of Ifa...
In this work, the connotation of the term 'Ifa' is deliberately restricted to the Ifa divination system and its literary...
Imperial Crises And Their Effect...
This paper is an attempt to examine the status of Islam in Oyo and its environs1 in the era of...
Kingdoms Of The Yoruba 3rd...
The past of the Yoruba of West Africa, who form the population of the Western State of Nigeria, must be...
Lugard Dual Mandate
METHODS OF RULING NATIVE RACES. IF continuity and decentralisation are, as I have said, the first and most important conditions...
Mother Is Gold Father Is...
During my third extended research trip in Kétu, Bénin, in the fall of 2006, when I asked people to explain...