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The first book-length ethnographic study on music and Ifá divination in Cuba and Nigeria. Hailing from Cuba, Nigeria, and various sites across Latin America and the Caribbean, Ifá missionary-practitioners are transforming the landscape of Ifá divination and deity (òrìṣà/oricha) worship through transatlantic travel and reconnection. In Cuba, where Ifá and Santería emerged as an interrelated, Yorùbá-inspired ritual complex, worshippers are driven to "African traditionalism" by its promise of efficacy: they find Yorùbá approaches more powerful, potent, and efficacious. In the first book-length study on music and Ifá, Ruthie Meadows draws on extensive, multisited fieldwork in Cu...
This book examines the intersection of art, risk, and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife. It offers a unique lens into one of Africa's most important and least understood early civilizations, one whose historic arts have long been of interest to local residents and Westerners alike because of their tour-de-force visual power and technical complexity.
When will you retire, and how is your retirement going to be? Retirement: A Must for Every Life is a book that guides people to retire young, rich, and healthy! The book analyses retirement and views its three main dimensions, giving the earthly origin and heavenly end of retirement. Knowing how to secure your financial well-being and be in good health in retirement is the most important thing you will need to do in life. You dont have to be a genius or a doctor to do this. The book was born out of the authors burning desire to assist individual staff members of organizations, whether private or government, and persons who need motivation and inspiration irrespective of where they have their...
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This indispensable tool provides a breadth and depth of resources for anyone interested in understanding the changing and complex reality that is Africa today. To many outside the continent, Africa appears to be remote and inaccessible. But this doesn't have to be so. The print and audiovisual resources gathered together in this directory demonstrate that there are many ways to access this huge and diverse continent.
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