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Author : Mike Omoleye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Great Tales of the Yorubas written by Mike Omoleye and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Omoleye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Great Tales of the Yorubas written by Mike Omoleye and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oyekan Owomoyela
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803286115
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Yoruba Trickster Tales written by Oyekan Owomoyela and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Tales of Yoruba Gods and Heroes written by Harold Courlander and published by New York : Crown Publishers. This book was released on 1973 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Myths, legends and heroic tales of the Yoruba people of West Africa"--Cover subtitle.
Author : Amos Tutuola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Yoruba Folktales written by Amos Tutuola and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : M. I. Ogumefu
Publisher : NuVision Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781595478306
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (783 download)
Download or read book Yoruba Legends written by M. I. Ogumefu and published by NuVision Publications. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : B. A. M. I. Ogumefu
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465517324
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Yorba Legends written by B. A. M. I. Ogumefu and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Various
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1907256334
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)
Download or read book YORUBA LEGENDS written by Various and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yoruba people are descendants from a variety of West African communities. They are united by Geography, History, Religion and most importantly their Language. The 31 legends and tales in this volume belong to the Yoruba people. 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, the Three Magicians, the Boa- Constrictor, How the Elephant got his Trunk and more. There are 9 extra tales about the adventures of the rascally and mischievous tortoise. These stories grew from the imagination of the people. 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 a race of people. Many years ago, before the advent of the West African slave trade, the Yoruba people inhabited an area which stretched, along the coast of West Africa, all the way inward and down to Angola in South West Africa. Today this is not the case. 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 express primitive notions of right and wrong. As a rule, the wicked are punished and the good rewarded; and that, we feel, is as it should be. We may weep at the death of rascally Tortoise, but we may also feel that he somehow has deserved his fate! A percentage of the net sale from this book will be donated to Edgbarrow School in Crowthorne, Berkshire to augment fundraising for their Ghana Project.
Author : Phillis Gershator
Publisher : Orchard Books (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780531088739
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Zzzng! Zzzng! Zzzng! written by Phillis Gershator and published by Orchard Books (NY). This book was released on 1998 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ear, Leg, and Arm refuse to marry Mosquito, she shows them that she is not to be ignored.
Author : Stephen Adebanji Akintoye
Publisher : Amalion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 2359260278
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (592 download)
Download or read book A History of the Yoruba People written by Stephen Adebanji Akintoye and published by Amalion Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ulli Beier
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521229951
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Yoruba Myths written by Ulli Beier and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1980-10-02 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This mysterious, poetic and often amusing collection of myths illustrates the religion and thought of the West African Yoruba People.
Author : Harold Courlander
Publisher : New York : Crown Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tales of Yoruba Gods and Heroes written by Harold Courlander and published by New York : Crown Publishers. This book was released on 1973 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Myths, legends and heroic tales of the Yoruba people of West Africa"--Cover subtitle.
Author : Amos Tutuola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Yoruba Folktales written by Amos Tutuola and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : D.O. Fagunwa
Publisher : City Lights Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0872866300
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Forest of A Thousand Daemons written by D.O. Fagunwa and published by City Lights Publishers. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel written in the Yoruba language and one of the first to be written in any African language.
Author : Olola Olabode Ogunlana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992686321
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (863 download)
Download or read book The Quest for the Rare Leaf and Other Yoruba Tales written by Olola Olabode Ogunlana and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rotimi Ogunjobi
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326294601
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Ajantala & other Yoruba Folktales written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the magical world of Yoruba folklore with Ajantala and other Yoruba Folktales, a captivating collection of stories that will transport you to another time and place. In this book, you'll discover a rich tapestry of tales that have been passed down through generations of Yoruba storytellers. Some of the stories are as old as the art of storytelling itself, while others are relatively newer. Some of the stories are familiar to those who grew up with Yoruba culture, while others are unique to the author's own imagination. But regardless of their origin, all of the stories in this collection share one thing in common - they're filled with magic, wonder, and the timeless wisdom of Yoruba culture. You'll meet a cast of colorful characters, from wily tricksters to wise elders, and journey through the lush landscapes and mystical realms of Yoruba mythology. With its vivid prose, vibrant imagery, and timeless wisdom, Ajantala and other Yoruba Folktales is a must-read for anyone interested in the art of storytelling, folklore, or African culture. So sit back, relax, and prepare to be transported to a world of magic and wonder that you'll never forget.
Author : YORUBA AFRICAN FOLK TALES.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Yoruba African Folk Tales written by YORUBA AFRICAN FOLK TALES. and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
