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A History of the Yoruba People
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 fro...
Coming Revolutions in Black Africa
The book holds that the best solution to the perennial conflicts in sub-Saharan African countries is a rational Federalism through a sensible Federal Autonomy structure. The foundation of these conflicts lies in arbitrary colonial boundaries and arbitrary agglomerations of peoples, conflicts that have been aggravated in each country by the poor management of diversity since independence, conflicts that are contributing in great measure to poor pace of development in Black Africa, to poverty, and to massive human suffering. This advocacy of today differs in degrees from the early Pan-African advocacy of previous years, in which many African youths excitedly participated. The earlier Pan-Afric...
The Yoruba
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 History of the Yorubas
The first published account and standard reference for the history of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, first published in 1921.
The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present
A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.
Ife, Cradle of the Yoruba
"When this book made its first appearance in 1958, it was well received by lovers of Yoruba history and culture. Indeed, the most famous scholar of the Yoruba at that time, Professor S. O. Biobaku, who encouraged the project, supplied a foreword to the first edition. The reason for reprinting this book is exactly the same reason expressed many years ago: a new generation remains ignorant of the history of their people. The central focus is the city of Ile-Ife; the author, the late J. A. Ademakinwa, was an Ife indigene. He puts the mythologies and traditions of his people to good use to speak to a host of subjects.." . . "Ademakinwa's book fulfills the goals set out by the author, conveying i...
The Yorùbá People
Beyond the confines of the African continent, Yoruba civilisation has played a very significant role in the expansion and establishment of Black Africa’s presence. This book draws our attention to the palpable influence of Yoruba religion, philosophy, politics, economics, dress and fashion, food, music, literature, visual, verbal and performing arts in Africa and the African diaspora.
