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| kingdoms of the yoruba: Kingdoms of the Yoruba Robert Sydney Smith, 1988 This third edition of what has been described as this minor classic has been extensively revised to take account of advances in Nigerian historiography. The twenty million Yorubas are one of the largest and most important groups of people on the African continent. Historically they were organized in a series of autonomous kingdoms and their past is richly recorded in oral tradition and archaeology. From the fifteenth century onwards there are descriptions by visitors and from the nineteenth century there are abundant official reports from administrators and missionaries. Yoruba sculpture in stone, metal, ivory, and wood is famous. Less well-known are the elaborate and carefully designed constitutional forms which were evolved in the separate kingdoms, the methods of warfare and diplomacy, the oral literature, and the religion based on the worship of a high god surrounded by a pantheon of more accessible deities. Many of these aspects are shown in the drawings and photographs which have been used--for the first time--to illustrate this distinguished work. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Kingdoms of the Yoruba Robert Smith, 1969 |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Kingdoms of the Yoruba Robert Smith, 2023-12-20 Originally published in 1969 and as a second edition in 1976, this book gives a general account of the major Yoruba kingdoms and provides a synthesis of Yoruba and Igbomina history, culture and archaeology. The reasons for, and the chronology of the decline and fall of Old Oyo are also discussed. Much of the history reconstructed in this book was done so almost wholly from oral histories, with all evidence being subjected to rigorous examination. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: The Yoruba Akinwumi Ogundiran, 2020-11-03 The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small corner of the Niger-Benue Confluence in present-day Nigeria to becoming one of the most populous cultural groups on the African continent. Weaving together archaeology with linguistics, environmental science with oral traditions, and material culture with mythology, Ogundiran examines the local, regional, and even global dimensions of Yoruba history. The Yoruba: A New History offers an intriguing cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and social history from ca. 300 BC to 1840. It accounts for the events, peoples, and practices, as well as the theories of knowledge, ways of being, and social valuations that shaped the Yoruba experience at different junctures of time. The result is a new framework for understanding the Yoruba past and present. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Kingdoms of the Yoruba Robert S Smith, 2023-12 Originally published in 1969 and as a second edition in 1976, this book gives a general account of the major Yoruba kingdoms and provides a synthesis of Yoruba and Igbomina history, culture and archaeology. The reasons for, and the chronology of the decline and fall of Old Oyo are also discussed. Much of the history reconstructed in this book was done so almost wholly from oral histories, with all evidence being subjected to rigorous examination. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: The Frontier States of Western Yorubaland Biodun Adediran, 1994 The Yorùbá are one of the peoples of West Africa affected by the demarcation of territories by European powers at the close of the nineteenth century. Although the bulk of the people are now found in South-western Nigeria, impressive indigenous Yorùbá communities are in the neighbouring Republics of Benin and Togo. This book is primarily concerned with the Yorùbá sub-groups in the latter two countries. The intention is to trace, with the aid of verbally transmitted historical source materials, supplemented with available written data, the pre-colonial socio-political developments of the subgroups. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: West African Kingdoms in the Nineteenth Century Daryll Forde, P. M. Kaberry, 2018-10-10 Originally published in 1967 this volume presents studies of 10 West African kingdoms which have played an important part in the economic, political and cultural life of the region. Ranging geographically from the kingdom of Benin in southern Nigeria to the Wolof kingdom of Kayor in Senegal, they inlcude the Oyo Yoruba, Dahomey, Hausa, Maradi, Kom in West Cameroon, the Mossi, Ashanti and Gonja and the Mende chiefdoms of Sierra Leone. Each outlines the historical origins and development of the kingdom and analyses its organization in the nineteenth century. It includes accounts of the economic basis and resources of the state and the significance of tribute and trade, of the social categories among its population, the administrarive machinery and communnications, the judicial and military organization and external relations. It also considers the importance of the ideology and rituals of kingship. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Great Kingdoms of Africa John Parker, 2023-03-21 A groundbreaking, sweeping overview of the great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts. This is the first book for nonspecialists to explore the great precolonial kingdoms of Africa that have been marginalized throughout history. Great Kingdoms of Africa aims to decenter European colonialism and slavery as the major themes of African history and instead explore the kingdoms, dynasties, and city-states that have shaped cultures across the African continent. This groundbreaking book offers an innovative and thought-provoking overview that takes us from ancient Egypt and Nubia to the Zulu Kingdom almost two thousand years later. Each chapter is written by a leading historian, interweaving political and social history and drawing on a rich array of sources, including oral histories and recent archaeological findings. Great Kingdoms of Africa is a timely and vital book for anyone who wants to expand their knowledge of Africa's rich history. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Ancient Kingdoms of West Africa Dierk Lange, 2004 Sub-Saharan African history does not feature in the world history of the classical period because it continues to be dominated by an emphasis on local paradigms. Using hitherto unexplored sources, this study places parts of West and also East Africa on the map for the ancient world. It shows in particular that the main clan and state structures of several West African kingdoms are based on the same dualistic pattern as that of the Canaanite-Israelite, and hence also Phoenician, societies. Supported by written records, oral traditions and cult-dramatic performances, these similarities suggest the existence of early trans-Saharan contacts reaching back to the pre-Roman period. The Phoenician slave trade appears to have been the single most important factor explaining the transfer of these organizational forms from North Africa to the sub-Saharan region, where they are particularly prominent in the Hausa and Yoruba societies. Similar social institutions were transmitted from the Semitic world to the Horn of Africa as a result of the ancient myrrh and frankincense trade. Their subsequent contextualization and local adaptation led to the rise of a number of great kingdoms in West and East Africa. Some of these polities grew so powerful that they conquered and controlled the successor states of their former metropolitan suzerains. Dealing with regional history as well, the volume presents the development of the West African empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhay from the new perspective of ethnogenesis. There are numerous original maps, charts and photographs to illustrate the text. Dierk Lange is Professor of African History at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. He presents here the results of more than thirty years of research devoted to the history of Africa and explains his more recent focus on relations with Phoenician North Africa. Before his appointment in Bayreuth, he studied African and Islamic history as well as anthropology in Paris, worked on Arabic texts for four years in Cairo and taught African and Islamic history for five years at the University of Niamey. He crossed the Sahara several times and undertook more than fifteen research trips to Nigeria, Niger and Chad. His publications in three languages include two books, numerous articles in learned journals and two contributions to the UNESCO history of Africa. He is unique in comparing African cultural forms with those of the ancient Near East. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: The History of the Yorubas from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate Samuel Johnson, 1921 First published in 1921, and cited on the Africa's Best 100 Books List, this is a standard work on the history of theYorubas from the earliest times to the beginning of the British Protectorate. The first part of the book discusses the people, theircountry and language, religion, government, land law, manners and customs. The second part is divided into four periods, dealing first with mytheological kings and deified heroes; with the growth, prosperity and oppression of the Yoruba people; the time of revolutionary wars and disruption; and, finally, the arrest of disintegration, inter-tribal wars, and the coming of the British. There are two appendices, on dealing with treaties and agreements, the other giving tables of Yoruba kings, rulers, and chiefs. The book also includes an index and map of the Yoruba country. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Nigerian Studies Richard Edward Dennett, 1910 |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Indigenous African Institutions George Ayittey, 2006-09-01 George Ayittey’s Indigenous African Institutions presents a detailed and convincing picture of pre-colonial and post-colonial Africa - its cultures, traditions, and indigenous institutions, including participatory democracy. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Encyclopedia of the Yoruba Toyin Falola, Akintunde Akinyemi, 2016-06-20 “The encyclopedia gives a complex, yet detailed, presentation of the Yorùbá, a dominant ethnic group in West Africa . . . an invaluable resource.” —Yoruba Studies Review The Yoruba people today number more than thirty million strong, with significant numbers in the United States, Nigeria, Europe, and Brazil. This landmark reference work emphasizes Yoruba history, geography and demography, language and linguistics, literature, philosophy, religion, and art. The 285 entries include biographies of prominent Yoruba figures, artists, and authors; the histories of political institutions; and the impact of technology and media, urban living, and contemporary culture on Yoruba people worldwide. Written by Yoruba experts on all continents, this encyclopedia provides comprehensive background to the global Yoruba and their distinctive and vibrant history and culture. “Readers unfamiliar with the Yoruba will find the introduction a concise and valuable overview of their language and its dialects, recent history, mythology and religion, and diaspora movements . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa Andrea L. Stanton, Edward Ramsamy, Peter J. Seybolt, Carolyn M. Elliott, 2012-01-05 In our age of globalization and multiculturalism, it has never been more important for Americans to understand and appreciate foreign cultures and how people live, love, and learn in areas of the world unfamiliar to most U.S. students and the general public. The four volumes in our cultural sociology reference encyclopedia take a step forward in this endeavor by presenting concise information on those regions likely to be most foreign to U.S. students: the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. The intent is to convey what daily life is like for people in these selected regions. It is hoped entries within these volumes will aid readers in efforts to understand the importance of cultural sociology, to appreciate the effects of cultural forces around the world, and to learn the history of countries and cultures within these important regions. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Divining the Self Velma E. Love, 2012-10-25 Divining the Self weaves elements of personal narrative, myth, history, and interpretive analysis into a vibrant tapestry that reflects the textured, embodied, and performative nature of scripture and scripturalizing practices. Velma Love examines the Odu—the Yoruba sacred scriptures—along with the accompanying mythology, philosophy, and ritual technologies engaged by African Americans. Drawing from the personal narratives of African American Ifa practitioners along with additional ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Oyotunji African Village, South Carolina, and New York City, Love’s work explores the ways in which an ancient worldview survives in modern times. Divining the Self also takes up the challenge of determining what it means for the scholar of religion to study scripture as both text and performance. This work provides an excellent case study of the sociocultural phenomenon of scripturalizing practices. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: A History of the Yoruba People Stephen Adebanji Akintoye, 2010-01-01 A History of the Yoruba People is an audacious comprehensive exploration of the founding and growth of one of the most influential groups in Africa. In this commendable book, S. Adebanji Akintoye deploys four decades of historiography research with current interpretation and analyses to present the most complete and authoritative volume on the Yoruba to date. This exceptionally lucid account gathers and imparts a wealth of research and discourses on Yoruba studies for a wider group of readership than ever before. Very few attempts have tried to grapple fully with the historical foundations and development of a group that has contributed to shaping the way African communities are analysed from prehistoric to modern times. “A wondrous achievement, a profound pioneering breakthrough, a reminder to New World historians of what ‘proper history’ is all about – a recount which draws the full landed and spiritual portrait of a people from its roots up – A History of the Yoruba People is yet another superlative work of brilliant chronicling and persuasive interpretation by an outstanding scholar and historiographer of Africa.~ Prof Michael Vickers, author of Ethnicity and Sub-Nationalism in Nigeria: Movement for a Mid-West Stateand Phantom Trail: Discovering Ancient America. “This book is more than a 21st century attempt to (re)present a comprehensive history of the Yoruba ... shifting the focus to a broader and more eclectic account. It is a far more nuanced, evidentially-sensitive, systematic account.” ~ Wale Adebanwi, Assist. Prof., African American and African Studies, UC Davis, USA. “Akintoye links the Yoruba past with the present, broadening and transcending Samuel Johnson in scope and time, and reviving both the passion and agenda that are over a century old, to reveal the long history and definable identity of a people and an ethnicity...Here is an accessible book, with the promise of being ageless, written by the only person who has sustained an academic interest in this subject for nearly half a century, providing the treasures of accumulated knowledge, robust encounters with received wisdom, and mature judgement about the future.” ~ Toyin Falola, The Frances Higginbotham Nalle Professor in History, University of Texas at Austin, USA. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: The Early State in African Perspective , 2023-07-24 The essays in this volume are the product of an interdisciplinary research seminar on The Early State in Africa, conducted during the 1979-1980 academic year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This seminar was one of a series of seminars on comparative civilizations. The participants included historians, sociologists, political scientists, and specialists in comparative religion, who shared an interest in the emergence and dynamics of the state in Africa and were concerned with trying to understand its origins and its various manifestations on the continent. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: The Yoruba Today Jeremy Seymour Eades, 1980-05-08 |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: The Kingdoms of the Yoruba William B. Noseworthy, 2018 |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: The Political Development of Yoruba Kingdoms in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Peter Cutt Lloyd, 1971 |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Women in Yoruba Religions Oyèrónké Oládém?, 2022-07-19 Uncovers the influence of Yoruba culture on women’s religious lives and leadership in religions practiced by Yoruba people Women in Yoruba Religions examines the profound influence of Yoruba culture in Yoruba religion, Christianity, Islam, and Afro-Diasporic religions such as Santeria and Candomblé, placing gender relations in historical and social contexts. While the coming of Christianity and Islam to Yorubaland has posed significant challenges to Yoruba gender relations by propagating patriarchal gender roles, the resources within Yoruba culture have enabled women to contest the full acceptance of those new norms. Oyeronke Olademo asserts that Yoruba women attain and wield agency in family and society through their economic and religious roles, and Yoruba operate within a system of gender balance, so that neither of the sexes can be subsumed in the other. Olademo utilizes historical and phenomenological methods, incorporating impressive data from interviews and participant-observation, showing how religion is at the core of Yoruba lived experiences and is intricately bound up in all sectors of daily life in Yorubaland and abroad in the diaspora. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Africa's Ogun Sandra T. Barnes, 1997-06-22 This landmark work of ethnography explores the enduring, global worship of the African god of war—with five new essays in this new, expanded edition. Ogun—the ancient African god of iron, war, and hunting—is worshiped by more than forty million adherents in Western Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas. This rich, interdisciplinary collection draws on field research from several continents to reveal Ogun’s dramatic power and enduring appeal. Contributors examine the history and spread of Ogun throughout old and new worlds; the meaning of Ogun ritual, myth, and art; and the transformations of Ogun through the deity’s various manifestations. This edition includes five new essays focusing mainly on Ogun worship in the new world. “[A]n ethnographically rich contribution to the historical understanding of West African culture, as well as an exploration of the continued vitality of that culture in the changing environments of the Americas.” —African Studies Review |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: The African Experience Vincent Khapoya, 2015-07-14 This book examines the role that Africa has played on the world stage, the African Union, the African leaders' efforts to take care of their own problems and lessen their dependence on the United States and European countries. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Seeds of Awakening: The Creation of Oyotunji African Kingdom H.R.G. Iya Orite Olasowo-Adefunmi, 2024-06-12 In 1970 the Kingdom of Oyotunji arose in the southern low country shadowed by plantations where once enslaved Africans harvested South Carolina gold rice and Gullah-Geechee lore resisted erasure. The seeds of awakening were being planted by Walter Eugene King and a dedicated group of African Americans amid the chaos of the civil rights struggle, the Black Power movement and anti-war protests, intending to restore cultural glory to African Americans. Through ancestor worship, rhythmic drumbeats, tribal marked faces, lively singing and earth shaking beneath bare dancing feet, the journey revealed in the book Seeds of Awakening: The Creation of Oyotunji African Kingdom is a story of a movement whose hiding in plain sight existence greatly influenced black identity and pride in 20th century America, and, as referenced in 2023 by the New York Times, Oyotunji is “Overlooked no more.” ...I applaud Iya Orite Olasowo-Adefunmi for documenting the history of Orisha coming to the African American community by way of Oyotunji, and I salute her enthusiastic commitment to its development and growth, alongside her husband and the priests and priestesses who supported the idea from its inception. I also celebrate the role the ancestors had me, my family and our elders play in the profound birth of a historic landmark for African Americans and their history. May Sàngo always protect you and Oyotunji. Ase’o! Oba Irawo Ernesto Pichardo Priest of Sango, Miami, Florida There is no more prolific demonstration of the presence and living history of the Yoruba presence in America than Oyotunji African Kingdom in Sheldon, SC. We commend HRG Iya Orite Olasowo-Adefunmi for being both an active contributor to and custodian of the development of Oba Oseijeman’s African Restoration Movement in America. High Chief Nathaniel B. Styles, Jr., The Nana Kwaku Ankobeahene II of Ghana and Otunba Folungbade of Yorubaland ...With an insider’s standpoint and the vantage point of a seasoned elder looking back at the phenomenal feat that created the Kingdom, former Olori (Queen] of the founder of Oyotunji offers a never before reflection of the Seeds of Cultural and Political Revolution that led to the awakening of thousands of Africans in America. A must read! Kamari Maxine Clarke, Ph.D, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Los Angeles, author of Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities (Duke U Press, 2004). |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: National Geographic Concise History of World Religions Tim A. Cooke, 2011 Presented in a time line format, the book offers a survey of world religions. It examines global perspectives on the history of faith in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania, Africa and the Middle East. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: State-Directed Development Atul Kohli, 2004-08-30 Why have some developing country states been more successful at facilitating industrialization than others? An answer to this question is developed by focusing both on patterns of state construction and intervention aimed at promoting industrialization. Four countries are analyzed in detail - South Korea, Brazil, India, and Nigeria - over the twentieth century. The states in these countries varied from cohesive-capitalist (mainly in Korea), through fragmented-multiclass (mainly in India), to neo-patrimonial (mainly in Nigeria). It is argued that cohesive-capitalist states have been most effective at promoting industrialization and neo-patrimonial states the least. The performance of fragmented-multiclass states falls somewhere in the middle. After explaining in detail as to why this should be so, the study traces the origins of these different state types historically, emphasizing the role of different types of colonialisms in the process of state construction in the developing world. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: City of 201 Gods Jacob Olupona, 2011-12-13 The author focuses on one of the most important religious centers in Africa: the Yoruba city of Ile-Ife in southwest Nigeria. The spread of Yoruba traditions in the African diaspora has come to define the cultural identity of millions of black and white people in Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and the United States. He describes how the city went from great prominence to near obliteration and then rose again as a contemporary city of gods. Throughout, he corroborates the indispensable linkages between religion, cosmology, migration, and kinship as espoused in the power of royal lineages, hegemonic state structure, gender, and the Yoruba sense of place. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Challenges of Interreligious Dialogue Edmund Emeka Ezegbobelu, 2009 Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)-Univ. Frankfurt (Main), 2009. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: History of Yoruba Land Gbade Aladeojebi, 2016-10-17 The name Nigeria was coined in Lokoja by Flora Shaw, the future wife of Baron Lugard, a British colonial administrator, while gazing out at the river Niger. So, British colonialism created Nigeria as a country, joining diverse peoples and regions in an artificial political entity along the Niger River. The territory known today as Nigeria is a very large country of multi-ethnic groups of about four hundred. The land mass is large enough to accommodate France, Belgium and Italy. The name Nigeria is derived from the River Niger which traverses the country from the North to the South. Nigeria is located on the coast of Western Africa. It has an area of 356,669 square miles (923,768 square km). At its greatest expanse, it measures about 1,200 kilometres (about 750 mi) from East to West and about 1,050 kilometres (about 650 mi) from North to South. It is bordered to the north by Niger, the east by Chad and Cameroon, the south by the Gulf of Guinea, and to the west by Benin. Niger River and the Benue, are its largest tributary, are the principal rivers in the country. The area that is now Nigeria was home to ethnically based kingdoms and tribal communities before it became a European colony. In spite of European contact that began in the 16th century, these kingdoms and communities maintains their autonomy until the 19th century. Federal Republic of Nigeria is a constitutional Federal Republic comprising 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja. The principal groups in the Northern part are Hausa, Fulani, Kanuri, and Nupe. Other minority tribes also inhabits the Middle belt area, these include the Jukun, the Chamba and the Bata. In the region north of the upper Benue valley various ethnic groups such as Fali, Gabun, Gude, Gudu, Higi, Hona Mbula, Mumuye and Tika also inhabits the area. In the Southwest we have the Yoruba, another principal ethnic group and in the Southeast we have the Igbo people which form the third principal ethnic group. In the South-south we have the group of minorities such as Annang, Efik, Ibibio, Ijaw, Itsekiri, Isoko Uhrobo and Ukwiani. The entire ethnic group in Nigeria is over 500, parts of these are listed in appropriate section of this book. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Tradition, Culture and Development in Africa Ambe J Njoh, 2016-12-05 The fact that Africa continues to lag behind all regions of the world on every indicator of development is hardly contentious. However, there is fierce debate on why this should be the case, despite national and international efforts to reverse this situation. While this book does not attempt to answer this question per se, it addresses a largely ignored, but important issue, which might provide some insights into the matter. This issue is the link between culture/tradition and socio-economic development in Africa. By weaving a common thread through these concepts, this book breaks new ground in the discourse on development. It highlights the differences between Euro-centric culture, which is rooted in capitalist ideology and Protestant ethic, and traditional African culture, where concepts such as capital accumulation, entrepreneurial attitudes and material wealth are not of top priority. In doing so, it dispels popular myths, stereotypes and distortions, as well as discounting misleading accounts about major aspects of African culture and traditional practices. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Nigeria Blaine Wiseman, 2015-08-01 Located on the continent of Africa, Nigeria is a country known around the world for its arts and culture. Nigeria’s landscape is diverse. It features plains and valleys, plateaus and mountains, deserts, rivers, wetlands, and a gulf coastline. Learn about Nigeria’s fascinating history, culture, geography, and more in Nigeria, an Exploring Countries book. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Nigeria's Diverse Peoples April A. Gordon, 2003-11-19 Exploring the history of ethnic, regional, and religious diversity in Nigeria, this volume traces most of the country's current problems to its colonial exploitation. Plagued by ethnic divisions, economic inequality, and corruption, Nigeria appears to conform to the stereotypical view that Africa's problems are mostly the result of primitive tribalism. But as Nigeria's Diverse Peoples demonstrates, most of Nigeria's problems today were set in motion by Europeans during the slave trade and colonial eras. Focusing on three main ethnic groups (Hausa-Falani, Yoruba, and Igbo) and ranging from precolonial times to independence in 1960 to the present, this breakthrough study portrays a Nigeria now striving to make a unified nation of itself. Offering a fresh understanding not just of Nigeria but of Africa as well, readers will enter the richly complex world of Nigeria's ethnic history. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: The Yoruba Akinwumi Ogundiran, 2020-11-03 The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small corner of the Niger-Benue Confluence in present-day Nigeria to becoming one of the most populous cultural groups on the African continent. Weaving together archaeology with linguistics, environmental science with oral traditions, and material culture with mythology, Ogundiran examines the local, regional, and even global dimensions of Yoruba history. The Yoruba: A New History offers an intriguing cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and social history from ca. 300 BC to 1840. It accounts for the events, peoples, and practices, as well as the theories of knowledge, ways of being, and social valuations that shaped the Yoruba experience at different junctures of time. The result is a new framework for understanding the Yoruba past and present. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Yoruba Babatunde Lawal, 2012-06-01 Art features prominently in the culture of the Yoruba, a people numbering more than 25 million and subdivided into different kingdoms in Nigeria and adjacent regions. It both enriches life and is used to venerate and influence deities. This new book explores the archaeological and historical evidence that suggests that by the beginning of the second millennium, many Yoruba kingdoms had become major urban centers with highly developed economic, cultural, political, and religious institutions. Drawing on field observations, contextual analyses, oral sources, and published materials, this book offers insight into the poetics and dynamics of Yoruba art and the belief that the “beautiful” or “well-made” generates a special power that commands attention. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Africans John Iliffe, 1995-08-25 In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the South African general election of 1994, John Iliffe refocuses African history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, and their social, economic and political institutions have been designed to ensure survival and maximise numbers. These institutions enabled them to survive the slave trade and colonial invasion, but in the context of medical progress and other twentieth-century innovations the same institutions have bred the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. This demographic growth has lain behind the collapse of colonial rule, the disintegration of Apartheid, and the instability of contemporary nations. The history of the continent is thus a single story binding living Africans to their earliest human ancestors. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present Aribidesi Usman, Toyin Falola, 2019-07-04 A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts Baba Ifa Karade, 2020-04-01 An introduction to the spiritual source of the beliefs and practices that have so profoundly shaped African American religious traditions. Most of the Africans who were enslaved and brought to the Americas were from the Yoruba nation of West Africa, an ancient and vast civilization. In the diaspora caused by the slave trade, the guiding concepts of the Yoruba spiritual tradition took root in Haiti, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil, and the United States. In this accessible introduction, Baba Ifa Karade provides an overview of the Yoruba tradition and its influence in the West. He describes the sixteen Orisha, or spirit gods, and shows us how to work with divination, use the energy centers of the body to internalize the teachings of Yoruba, and create a sacred place of worship. The book also includes prayers, dances, songs, offerings, and sacrifices to honor the Orisha. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Culture and Society in Yorubaland Deji Ogunremi, Biodun Adediran, 1998 |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: The Kingdoms "Olugbo of Ugbo" and "Ooni of Ife". A Controversy of Manipulation of History or a Fact From Antiquity Bababo Ikuemonisan, 2020-09-01 Academic Paper from the year 2020 in the subject History - Africa, , course: History and International Studies, language: English, abstract: This discourse opens with an explicit exploration of the two schools of thought that have come to chart the course of Ugbo and Ifee-Yoruba historiography and are pivotal to unravel Ugbo-Ooni of Ife controversy. It also attempts a critical assessment of facts from existing literatures on Ugbo, Yorùbá history and oral account of both palaces in the pre-Odùduwà era. The aboriginals or earliest dwellers of Ile-Ife {Ule-Ufe in Ilaje dialect} have been the kernel of controversy between the Olugbo of Ugbo Kingdom and Ooni of Ìfe. Both monarchs present conflicting viewpoints which x-ray innate understanding. Thus, this antiquated controversy till date is devoid of agreement between the monarchs and their people which paves way for a witty dialogue in the academic community. Since this controversy is of antiquity, and may lingers on unabated. This study therefore explores the two views/schools of thought appertaining to this controversy, and critically examines facts from antiquity. The study notes that scholars have made tremendous strides through varied and robust publications to unmask the mysticism surrounding Obatala and Oduduwa’s personalities and have tried to lay to rest the Olugbo-Ooni’s controversy. These researches have been useful but non-conclusive. However, this study concludes that availability of evidence to enhance Yoruba historiography are essential hormones of objectivity. |
| kingdoms of the yoruba: Gale Researcher Guide for: The Kingdoms of the Yoruba William B. Noseworthy, 2018-09-28 Gale Researcher Guide for: The Kingdoms of the Yoruba is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research. |
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Travian Kingdoms rozgrywa się w starożytnym świecie. Jako dowódca lokalnego plemienia, masz za zadanie zadbać o lepszą przyszłość swoich ludzi. Wciel się w rolę króla bądź gubernatora i …
Travian Kingdoms
Joga o jogo de browser grátis Travian Kingdoms. Constrói a tua aldeia, treina um exército, escolhe a tua tribo e joga contra milhares de jogadores.
Kingdoms Dynasty 2025 Starts Now! - Travian Kingdoms Blog
Feb 25, 2025 · We are excited to announce the Kingdoms Dynasty of 2025 is now live! This world is reserved for only those with 1.000 or more Prestige and comes with grand rewards, including …
Travian Kingdoms
Spiele das kostenlose Browserspiel Travian Kingdoms. Errichte dein Dorf, stelle eine Armee auf, wähle dein Volk und spiele gegen Tausende andere Spieler.
Travian Kingdoms
Play the free browser game Travian Kingdoms. Build up your village, train an army, choose your tribe and play against thousands of other players.
Travian Kingdoms
Juega al juego gratuito de navegador Travian Kingdoms. Construye tu aldea, entrena a tu ejército, elige a tu pueblo y juega contra miles de jugadores.
Travian Kingdoms
Играй в бесплатную браузерную игру Travian Kingdoms. Выбери народ, развивай деревню, обучай армию и сражайся с тысячами других игроков.
Travian Kingdoms
Ücretsiz tarayıcı oyunu Travian Kingdoms oyna. Köyünü inşa et, bir ordu eğit, halkını seç ve binlerce farklı oyuncuya karşı mücadele et. Türkiye
Travian Kingdoms
Gioca al browsergame Travian Kingdoms. Costruisci il tuo villaggio, addestra il tuo esercito, scegli la tua tribù e gioca contro migliaia di altri giocatori.
Travian Kingdoms
Travian Kingdoms se odehrává ve starověkém světě. Jako náčelník místního kmene máš za úkol vytvořit pro své obyvatele lepší budoucnost. Zvol si, zda budeš králem či guvernérem, …
Travian Kingdoms
Travian Kingdoms rozgrywa się w starożytnym świecie. Jako dowódca lokalnego plemienia, masz za zadanie zadbać o lepszą przyszłość swoich ludzi. Wciel się w rolę króla bądź gubernatora i …
Travian Kingdoms
Joga o jogo de browser grátis Travian Kingdoms. Constrói a tua aldeia, treina um exército, escolhe a tua tribo e joga contra milhares de jogadores.
Kingdoms Dynasty 2025 Starts Now! - Travian Kingdoms Blog
Feb 25, 2025 · We are excited to announce the Kingdoms Dynasty of 2025 is now live! This world is reserved for only those with 1.000 or more Prestige and comes with grand rewards, …
Travian Kingdoms
Spiele das kostenlose Browserspiel Travian Kingdoms. Errichte dein Dorf, stelle eine Armee auf, wähle dein Volk und spiele gegen Tausende andere Spieler.
