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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...

History, Yoruba History nicholaj de mattos frisvold
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 Sir F. LUGARD
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 Civilised Savagery Britain and...

' The path is strewn with dead men’s bones. You see the white thigh-bones lying in front of your feet,...

Kevin Grant
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 John K. Thornthon
A dance of the forests

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

Literature Wole Soyinka
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-Nigeria-Toyin-Falola-Matthew-M. 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 Toyin Falola and Matthew M Heaton
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
A-Tropical-Dependency-By-Flora-Louise-Shaw-Lugard A Tropical Dependency

A TROPICAL DEPENDENCY

It has become the habit of the British mind to think of the British Empire...

History, Nigerian History, Politics Flora Louise Shaw Lugard
African-states-citizenship-and-war_a-case–study 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 Mahmood Mamdani
ANCIENT IFE: a Reassessment

ANCIENT IFE: A REASSESSMENT Author(s): ROBIN HORTON

Source: Journal of...

History, Yoruba History Robin Horton
Art and Risk in Ancient...

Ife History, Power, and Identity, c .1300

In this book, Suzanne Preston...

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...

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...

Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Politics R.A. Adekoya
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