Yoruba E-Library

The 19th century was no doubt one of the most turbulent periods in the history of the Yoruba people....

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

This report was written on my way home last May, and I very much regret the delay which occurred in...

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

A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820, explores the idea that strong linkages exist in the histories of Africa,...

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

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

Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country and the world’s eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in...

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...

A TROPICAL DEPENDENCY

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

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

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

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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...