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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!

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 Rare Leaf

Author : Olola Olabode Ogunlana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992686369
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book The Rare Leaf written by Olola Olabode Ogunlana and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is a rich tradition of storytelling within Yoruba culture, with stories passed down through the generations but never written down .... This book sets out to present a particular sub-group of these: oral stories which have some kind of historical basis, handed down in the Ogere-Remo area (now in Ogun State) in the Remo dialect of Yoruba."--Page 10.

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:

Kingdoms of the Yoruba

Author : Robert Sydney Smith
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299116040
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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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.

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.

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 : 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

Yoruba Trickster Tales

Author : Oyekan Owomoyela
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803286115
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (861 download)

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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

Yoruba Love Stories

Author : Olola Olabode Ogunlana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992686338
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Yoruba Love Stories written by Olola Olabode Ogunlana and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 210 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.

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.

Yoruba Legends and Their History

Author : M. I. Ogumefu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781631820458
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Yoruba Legends and Their History written by M. I. Ogumefu and published by . This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Yoruba Legends

Author : M. I. Ogumefu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Yoruba Legends written by M. I. Ogumefu and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 87 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 and Their History Paperback

Author : Ogumefu I M
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781631829888
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Yoruba Legends and Their History Paperback written by Ogumefu I M and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary of the Yoruba tribe is widely known. Ogumefu's book shows a glimpse of the richness of the culture and beliefs.