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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.
Book Synopsis Ajantala & other Yoruba Folktales by : Rotimi Ogunjobi
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.
Book Synopsis The Kini-Kini Bird and more Yoruba Folktales by : Rotimi Ogunjobi
Download or read book The Kini-Kini Bird and more Yoruba Folktales written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kini-Kini Bird and more Yoruba Folktales is a selection of folklore thought to have originated from the Yoruba people. The Yoruba are native to the western part of Nigeria. A few centuries ago, the cultural influence of this ethnic group stretched much further out into the West Africa region. Folk tales of the Yoruba are often severely fantastic, the themes generally underscoring the largely agrarian occupation and also the great reverence accorded the gods and the traditional rulers of the communities.
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:
Book Synopsis Yoruba Trickster Tales by : Oyekan Owomoyela
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
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.
Book Synopsis Folktales and Fairy Tales [4 volumes] by : Anne E. Duggan Ph.D.
Download or read book Folktales and Fairy Tales [4 volumes] written by Anne E. Duggan Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 1751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedic in its coverage, this one-of-a-kind reference is ideal for students, scholars, and others who need reliable, up-to-date information on folk and fairy tales, past and present. Folktales and fairy tales have long played an important role in cultures around the world. They pass customs and lore from generation to generation, provide insights into the peoples who created them, and offer inspiration to creative artists working in media that now include television, film, manga, photography, and computer games. This second, expanded edition of an award-winning reference will help students and teachers as well as storytellers, writers, and creative artists delve into this enchanting world and keep pace with its past and its many new facets. Alphabetically organized and global in scope, the work is the only multivolume reference in English to offer encyclopedic coverage of this subject matter. The four-volume collection covers national, cultural, regional, and linguistic traditions from around the world as well as motifs, themes, characters, and tale types. Writers and illustrators are included as are filmmakers and composers—and, of course, the tales themselves. The expert entries within volumes 1 through 3 are based on the latest research and developments while the contents of volume 4 comprises tales and texts. While most books either present readers with tales from certain countries or cultures or with thematic entries, this encyclopedia stands alone in that it does both, making it a truly unique, one-stop resource.
Book Synopsis Ifa Divination by : William Russell Bascom
Download or read book Ifa Divination written by William Russell Bascom and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-11 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The sacred texts of Ifa, repository of the accumulated wisdom of countless generations of Yoruba people, are an invaluable source not only for all students of African oral literature and Yoruba civilization, but also for future generations interested in the continuing vitality of Ifa divination and a Yoruba way of life and thought." —Henry Drewal This landmark study of Ifa, the most important and elaborate system of divination of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, remains a monumental contribution to scholarship in anthropology, folklore, religion, philosophy, linguistics, and African and African-American studies.
Book Synopsis My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by : Amos Tutuola
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
Book Synopsis Orature and Yoruba Riddles by : A. Akinyeme
Download or read book Orature and Yoruba Riddles written by A. Akinyeme and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orature and Yorùbá Riddles takes readers into the hitherto unexplored undercurrents of riddles in Africa. Because of its oral and all too often ephemeral nature, riddles have escaped close scrutiny from scholars. The strength of the Yorùbá as the focus of this study is impressive indeed: a major ethnic group in Africa, with established connections with the black diaspora in North America and the Caribean; a rich oral and written culture; a large and diverse population; and an integrated rural-urban society. The book is divided into six chapters for readers' convenience. When read in sequence, the book provides a comprehensive, holistic sense of Yorùbá creativity where riddles are concerned. At the same time, the book is conceived in a way that each chapter could be read individually. Therefore, those readers seeking understanding of a specific type of riddle may target a single chapter appearing most relevant to her/his curiosity.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of the Yoruba by : Toyin Falola
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Yoruba written by Toyin Falola and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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
Book Synopsis King Chameleon and more West African Folktales by : Rotimi Ogunjobi
Download or read book King Chameleon and more West African Folktales written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Chameleon and more West African Folktales is a selection of folklore believed to have originated from West Africa and the people who live in the region. West Africa is home to several scores of tribes, languages and dialects. Even though, tribal cords are quite strong and languages may differ markedly even between two communities a few hundred miles apart, it is usual to find similarities between the local folktales, and in some cases only the names of the central characters would make one version of a tale to be different from another . Most of the stories in this volume were gleaned from areas within the countries now known as Ghana and Togo. However, the stories are commonly retold in several forms all over the West Africa region.
Book Synopsis Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2 by : Dan Ben-Amos
Download or read book Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2 written by Dan Ben-Amos and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2006 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folktales from Eastern Europe presents 71 tales from Ashkenasic culture in the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. It is the second volume in Folktales of the Jews, the five-volume series to be released over the next several years, in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg's classic, Legends of the Jews. The tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives at The University of Haifa, Israel (IFA), a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the Ashkenasic culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This volume and the others to come will be monuments to a rich but vanishing oral tradition
Book Synopsis Folktales of Newfoundland (RLE Folklore) by : Herbert Halpert
Download or read book Folktales of Newfoundland (RLE Folklore) written by Herbert Halpert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 1276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Newfoundland folk narratives, first published in 1996, grew out of extensive fieldwork in folk culture in the province. The intention was to collect as broad a spectrum of traditional material as possible, and Folktales of Newfoundland is notable not only for the number and quality of its narratives, but also for the format in which they are presented. A special transcription system conveys to the reader the accents and rhythms of each performance, and the endnote to each tale features an analysis of the narrator’s language. In addition, Newfoundland has preserved many aspects of English and Irish folk tradition, some of which are no longer active in the countries of their origin. Working from the premise that traditions virtually unknown in England might still survive in active form in Newfoundland, the researchers set out to discover if this was in fact the case.
Book Synopsis Esu Elegbara: Chance, Uncertainly In Yoruba Mythology by : Ogundipe, Ayodele
Download or read book Esu Elegbara: Chance, Uncertainly In Yoruba Mythology written by Ogundipe, Ayodele and published by Kwara State University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original work is a two-volume study of Èṣù Ẹlégbára, a Yoruba deity. Volume one consisted of six chapters, three appendices, and a bibliography. The texts of praise poems (orìkí), songs, and narratives selected from research in the field comprise volume two.
Book Synopsis The Dancing Palm Tree and Other Nigerian Folktales by :
Download or read book The Dancing Palm Tree and Other Nigerian Folktales written by and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of eleven tales from Nigeria includes "The Boy and the Leopard, " "The King and the Ring, " and "The Reward of Treachery." Also contains a glossary and explanation of customs.
Book Synopsis The Foo-Foo Tree and more Efik Folktales by : Rotimi Ogunjobi
Download or read book The Foo-Foo Tree and more Efik Folktales written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Foo-Foo Tree and more Efik Folktales is a selection of folklore thought to have originated from the Efik people . The Efik are native to South East Nigeria even though they were said to have migrated from the Cameroons. Originally the economy of the region which they occupy was based on fishing and trading . This aspect of their daily lives as well as the mortal dread of the Ekpe secret society which regularly made and enforced laws, will be seen to have formed the bedrock of their local anecdotes.
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