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YORUBA LEGENDS

Author : Various
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1907256830
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book YORUBA LEGENDS written by Various and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOTE: This book has been illustrated and published by the students of Edgbarrow School in Berkshire, England as a special project to raise funds for their Ghana Sponsorship campaign. DESCRIPTION: The Yoruba people are descendants from a variety of West African communities. They are united by Geography, History, Religion and most importantly their Language. In this volume you will find 31 stories and tales like: AKITI THE HUNTER, SONS OF STICKS, WHY WOMEN HAVE LONG HAIR THE LEOPARD-MAN, THE COOKING POT and many more. You also will find a further nine stories of the adventures of Tortoise and the many mischievous things he gets up to. 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. The legends and fairy stories in this book belong to the Yoruba. 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. 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. 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!

Legends from Yorubland

Author : Kemi Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789780291167
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Legends from Yorubland written by Kemi Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Legends from Yorubaland

Author : Kemi Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Legends from Yorubaland written by Kemi Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoruba eventyr, myter og legender fra Nigeria. Også for voksne

Yoruba Legends

Author : M. I. Ogumefu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781605060170
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Yoruba Legends written by M. I. Ogumefu and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Yoruba Myths

Author : Ulli Beier
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521229951
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (299 download)

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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.

The Yoruba

Author : Akinwumi Ogundiran
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253051509
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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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 562 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.

The Yoruba People

Author : Captivating History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781637165584
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book The Yoruba People written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present

Author : Aribidesi Usman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107064600
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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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.

Legends from Yorubaland

Author : Kemi Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Legends from Yorubaland written by Kemi Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoruba eventyr, myter og legender fra Nigeria. Også for voksne

Gods and Heroes

Author : Oladele Olusanya
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984543016
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Gods and Heroes written by Oladele Olusanya and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gods and Heroes is the first volume of the Itan—Legends of the Golden Age trilogy about the thousand-year story of the Yoruba people. It starts with the establishment of Ile-Ife by Oduduwa and the great sacrifice of the heroine Moremi. The ancient gods of Yorubaland, Obatala, Orunmila, Ogun, and Olokun all play their part, as well as the great heroes and heroines of antiquity—Oranmiyan, Sango, Oya, Oba Esigie of Benin, and Obanta of Ijebuland. The author uses the genre of the historical novel in a refreshing and imaginative fashion to present the whole tableau of Yoruba history. The result is a vast and rich panorama enlivened with traditional myths and legends seen through the eyes of a single Yoruba family and the Old Woman, the fabled storyteller.

The History of the Yorubas from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : CSS Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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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.

Tales of Yoruba Gods and Heroes

Author : Harold Courlander
Publisher : New York : Crown Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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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.

The Rare Leaf Yorùbá Legends and Love Stories

Author : O̩lábò̩dé Ògúnlàna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781977243232
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book The Rare Leaf Yorùbá Legends and Love Stories written by O̩lábò̩dé Ògúnlàna and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Author : Amos Tutuola
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571311555
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book My Life in the Bush of Ghosts written by Amos Tutuola and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terrifying beings. He is captured by ghosts, buried alive and wrapped up in spider webs, but after several years he marries and accepts his new existence. With the appearance of the television-handed ghostess, however, comes a possible route of escape.'Tutuola ... has the immediate intuition of a creative artist working by spell and incantation.' V. S. Pritchett, New Statesman

Ajantala & other Yoruba Folktales

Author : Rotimi Ogunjobi
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326294601
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (262 download)

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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.

Legends of the Yoruba

Author : M. I. Ogumefu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781952900419
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Legends of the Yoruba written by M. I. Ogumefu and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stories from Yorubaland

Author : Ayodele Publishing
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Stories from Yorubaland written by Ayodele Publishing and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-08-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the joy of learning and dreaming as you share these tales with your little ones, creating memories that will last a lifetime. "Stories from Yoruba Land: How the World Was Born" is a captivating children's book that invites young readers on a remarkable journey into the heart of Yoruba mythology. Through enchanting narratives and vibrant illustrations, children will be transported to a world where gods and goddesses shape the universe with their incredible powers. In this magical tale, children will follow the footsteps of Olodumare, Obatala, and Esu as they collaborate to bring light and life to the world we know today. As the cosmic backdrop of twinkling stars and galaxies sets the stage, readers will witness the creation of Earth unfold in a symphony of colors and dreams. This storybook not only offers an engaging and imaginative narrative but also introduces children to the rich cultural heritage of the Yoruba people. As they embark on this epic adventure, young readers will not only learn about the creation of our world but also be inspired by the timeless lessons of unity, collaboration, and the power of imagination. "Stories from Yoruba Land: How the World Was Born" is more than just a book - it's a gateway to a world of wonder and exploration. It's a bedtime companion, an educational resource, and an opportunity to foster curiosity about diverse cultures and their stories. This beautifully crafted book promises to be a cherished addition to any child's library, sparking conversations and igniting the spark of curiosity that will last a lifetime. This isn't just a book - it's a bridge to heritage, a portal to imagination and an introduction into the magic of Yoruba legends. All ages 50+ pages