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Book Synopsis Kingdoms of the Yoruba by : Robert Sydney Smith
Download or read book Kingdoms of the Yoruba written by Robert Sydney Smith and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Kingdoms of the Yoruba by : Robert Smith
Download or read book Kingdoms of the Yoruba written by Robert Smith and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kingdoms of the Yoruba by : Robert S Smith
Download or read book Kingdoms of the Yoruba written by Robert S Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Yoruba written by Akinwumi Ogundiran and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A History of the Yoruba People by : Stephen Adebanji Akintoye
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.
Book Synopsis The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present by : Aribidesi Usman
Download or read book The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present written by Aribidesi Usman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.
Book Synopsis The Frontier States of Western Yorubaland by : Biodun Adediran
Download or read book The Frontier States of Western Yorubaland written by Biodun Adediran and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Political Development of Yoruba Kingdoms in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries by : Peter Cutt Lloyd
Download or read book The Political Development of Yoruba Kingdoms in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries written by Peter Cutt Lloyd and published by London : Royal Anthropological Institute. This book was released on 1971 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Yorubas from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book The History of the Yorubas from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate written by Samuel Johnson and published by CSS Limited. This book was released on 1921 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Kingdoms of the Yoruba by : Robert Smith
Download or read book Kingdoms of the Yoruba written by Robert Smith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis West African Kingdoms in the Nineteenth Century by : Daryll Forde
Download or read book West African Kingdoms in the Nineteenth Century written by Daryll Forde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Gods Of The Seven Kingdoms by : Akin Ayeni Soyoye
Download or read book Gods Of The Seven Kingdoms written by Akin Ayeni Soyoye and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millennia, the Yoruba kingdom had thrived in tranquility, untouched by the ravages of war and disease. But a new malevolence had emerged from the east in the form of General Adulis and his Aksum empire. Utilizing the powers of Anubis, the god of the dead, Adulis had amassed an army of the undead, hell-bent on conquering every empire known to man - including the mighty Yoruba. Then, in the face of inevitable defeat, a prophecy emerged, foretelling the rebirth of the seven gods and goddesses of the Yoruba people as newborns destined to save their kingdom and the realm of humanity from destruction.
Download or read book A Living Tradition written by L. J. Munoz and published by Bookcraft, Nigeria. This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, written during the last couple of decades on Yoruba cultural heritage, brings together a wealth of material on Yoruba history, art, and institutions within a framework of writing on the phenomenon, history and sociology of tradition. The essays demonstrate a strong philosophical context, and new insights into the nature and behavior of the Yoruba tradition. A main theme is that there is no antithesis between tradition and modernity and that to examine how the Yoruba synthesize tradition and modernity is a useful way to understand how their society functions and changes. The author further brings perspectives to current concerns about why there is at present a resurgence of violent ethnic clashes. He reflects on the divisiveness of violent conflicts arising from tribalism and ethnic consciousness, illustrating how these need not be a threat to Nigerian unity, and considers roles of traditional authorities in modern political structures.
Book Synopsis Gale Researcher Guide for: The Kingdoms of the Yoruba by : William B. Noseworthy
Download or read book Gale Researcher Guide for: The Kingdoms of the Yoruba written by William B. Noseworthy and published by Gale, Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Olukumi Kingdom by : George Benin Nkemnacho
Download or read book Olukumi Kingdom written by George Benin Nkemnacho and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world that is increasingly being aware, in a political and cultural sense, of issues surrounding marginalised communities, this book gives a riveting account of the history, culture and politics of the Olukumi people, a marginalised Yoruba community unlike others that had hitherto been the subject of mainstream literature and debates. The Olukumi people are a bilingual (both Yoruba and Ibo) and sophisticated Black African community who were the first humans to inhabit their indigenous homeland but continue to be marginalised and discriminated by the majority newly arrived neighbours. The community practiced female to female marriages long before minority rights (like the LGBTQIA+ rights) came to be recognised even in so-called advanced Western countries like America and in Europe. It is because the Olukumis face appalling discrimination and deprivation at home that they continue to migrate. Yet, their culture of respect for minorities and tolerance for diverse opinions still survive. This book is about war and diplomacy. It is also about migration and settlement as well as a people's determination for survival and coexistence. It is told from an exclusively Olukumi perspective and written by an Olukumi indigene.
Book Synopsis Ancient Kingdoms of West Africa by : Dierk Lange
Download or read book Ancient Kingdoms of West Africa written by Dierk Lange and published by J.H.Röll Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Yorba Legends by : B. A. M. I. Ogumefu
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:
