Great Tales of the Yorubas
Author | : Mike Omoleye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Folklore |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mike Omoleye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Folklore |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mike Omoleye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Tales |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Oyekan Owomoyela |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780803286115 |
A collection of twenty-three tales involving Aj'ap'a, a tortoise with human traits who has relationships with an assortment of animal and human characters
Author | : Harold Courlander |
Publisher | : New York : Crown Publishers |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
"Myths, legends and heroic tales of the Yoruba people of West Africa"--Cover subtitle.
Author | : Amos Tutuola |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The author ranks as one of the foremost living traditional African storytellers - as recognised by the acclaim of his first book, The Palmvine Drinkard. This book includes seven folktales especially for young adults, but of universal appeal. Beautiful black and white ink drawings illustrate the tales whose cast of characters include humans, a goddess, an elephant woman, a boa constrictor and a shell-man.
Author | : Akinwumi Ogundiran |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2020-11-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253051525 |
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.
Author | : Stephen Adebanji Akintoye |
Publisher | : Amalion Publishing |
Total Pages | : 710 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 2359260278 |
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.
Author | : Phillis Gershator |
Publisher | : Orchard Books (NY) |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Folklore |
ISBN | : 9780531088739 |
When Ear, Leg, and Arm refuse to marry Mosquito, she shows them that she is not to be ignored.
Author | : B. A. M. I. Ogumefu |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465517324 |
Author | : M. I. Ogumefu |
Publisher | : NuVision Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781595478306 |
IN modern times we have begun paying close attention to folklore-old tales, not invented by one man, but belonging to the whole people; not written down, but told by parents to their children, and so handed on for hundreds of years. The legends and fairy stories in this book belong to the Yoruba country of Southem Nigeria. They relate the adventures of men and animals, and try to explain the mysteries of Nature-Why Women have Long Hair, How the Leopard got his Spots, and so forth. Most of them include very old songs, but these cannot here be given in full. We must not think that the stories are scientifically true; they grew out of the imagination of the people, and for actual, proven facts we must look in our text-books. We read these folk-tales for their quaintness and humour, for their sympathy with Nature, and because we find in them the ideas and ideals, not just of one man, but of the race.