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

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This book is about the British campaigns against the new slaveries of European imperialism in Africa in the late nineteenth...

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

A History of the Yoruba People is a thorough examination of the origins and history of one of Africa's most...

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

ANCIENT IFE: A REASSESSMENT Author(s): ROBIN HORTON Source: Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria , JUNE 1979, Vol. 9,...

Ife History, Power, and Identity, c .1300 In this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk, and...

Artists the world over shape knowledge and material into works of unique historical importance. The artists of ancient Ife, ancestral...

‘Anything, though ever so little, which a man speaks of himself in my opinion is still too much.’ So says...

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This study investigates the discursive construction and politicization of ethnic and other sub-national identities in Nigeria, starting from the post-WWII...

THIS ESSAY CONSIDERS one of the most important Yoruba cosmological referents, the plan of the capital Ile- Ife and its...

Many African and religious studies scholars who, like myself, have grown up in indigenous traditions and have been educated in...

This book grew out of a Ph.D. thesis submitted to the University of London in October 1963. Its aim is...

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

Local markets in Nigerian cities are under-studied but ubiquitous and ancient sites of interethnic conflicts and cooperation of everyday people...

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…)

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...