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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 nicholaj de mattos frisvold
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 Kevin Grant
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 Church Missionary Society
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 Stephen Adebanji Akintoye
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 Mr. Toyin Omoyeni Falola
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 Robin Horton
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 Suzanne Preston Blier
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 Suzanne Preston Blier
AWO - The autobiography of Chief Obafemi Awolowo 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 Obafemi Awolowo
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 Remi A. Adekoya
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 Suzanne Preston Blier
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...
Geo-Politics, History, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History Jacob K. Olúpònà
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...
Geo-Politics, History, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History I.A. AKINJOGBIN
Encyclopedia Of The Yoruba
This single volume of Encyclopedia of the Yorùbá is the very first to present materials on the Yorùbá in West...
Geo-Politics, History, Literature, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History Tóyìn Fálọlá and AkínTúndé Akínyẹmí
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...
Geo-Politics, History, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History Gbemisola Animasawun
Eweka Dynasty
Until quite recently, all the known historical traditions about the origin of the Eweka dynasty of Benin were unanimous in...
Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Literature, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History G. A. AKINOLA
History of Ekiti (From the...
The history of many places tells the story of wars waged by the countries in question ...... (more…)
Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Literature, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History Msgr A. Oguntuyi
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...
Geo-Politics, History, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History Samuel Johnson