YORUBA

yōˈroobä, people of SW Nigeria and Benin, numbering about 20 million. Today many of the large cities in Nigeria (including Lagos, Ibadan, and Abeokuta) are in Yorubaland. The old Yoruba kingdom of Oyo was traditionally one of the largest states of W Africa, but after the mid-1700s its power slowly waned. At the beginning of the 19th cent., Fulani invasions, slave raids from Dahomey, and the growing contact with Europeans divided the Yoruba into a number of small states. In the second half of the 19th cent. the Yoruba gradually fell under British control, and they were under direct British administration from 1893 until 1960. Yoruba religion includes a variety of gods. Vestiges of Yoruba culture are also found in Brazil and Cuba, where Yoruba were imported as slaves.

See G. J. A. Ojo, Yoruba Culture (1967); E. Krapf-Askari, Yoruba Towns and Cities (1969); R. S. Smith, Kingdoms of the Yoruba (1969); H. Courlander, Tales of Yoruba Gods and Heroes (1973).

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books on: Yoruba  - 2086 results

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Yoruba Land Law
Book by P. C. Lloyd; Oxford University Press, 1962
Subjects: Land Tenure (Yoruba Law)
YORUBA LAND LAW YORUBA LAND LAW P. C. LLOYD PUBLISHED FOR THE NIGERIAN INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL...Types of Cases 28 4. YORUBA TOWNS 30 Social Structure...
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Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother Tongue to Memory
Book by Maureen Warner-Lewis; University of Alabama Press, 1996
Subjects: Yoruba Language--Dialects--Trinidad
Trinidad Yoruba Trinidad Yoruba From Mother Tongue to Memory Maureen Warner-Lewis THE...1CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA Warner-Lewis, Maureen Trinidad Yoruba : from mother tongue to memory / Maureen Warner-Lewis p. cm...
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Olodumare: God in Yoruba Belief
Book by E. BO+̩laji Idowu; Longmans, 1962
Subjects: Yoruba (African People)--Religion
OLODUMARE God in Yoruba Belief BY E. BO+ LAJI IDOWU, B...have reference to the religion of the Yoruba, the Deity has been assigned a place...Very few people who really know the Yoruba can escape the uneasy feeling that there...
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Olaodaumarae: God in Yoruba Belief
Book by E. BȨlaji Idowu; Praeger, 1963
Subjects: Yoruba (African People)--Religion
OLODUMARE God in Yoruba Belief BY E. B LAJI IDOWU FREDERICK...have reference to the religion of the Yoruba, the Deity has been assigned a place...Very few people who really know the Yoruba can escape the uneasy feeling that there...
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African Philosophy: Traditional Yoruba Philosophy and Contemporary African Realities
Book by Segun Gbadegesin; Peter Lang, 1991
Subjects: Africa--Economic Conditions--1960-, Africa--Social Conditions--1960-, Philosophy, African, Philosophy, Yoruba, Yoruba (African People)--Social Life And Customs
...African Philosophy Traditional Yoruba Philosophy and Contemporary African Realities...Segun, African philosophy: traditional Yoruba philosophy and contemporary African realities...references and index. 1. Philosophy, Yoruba. 2. Philosophy, African. 3. Yoruba...
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'Without Women, Nothing Can Succeed': Yoruba Women in the Oodua People's Congress (OPC), Nigeria
Journal article by Insa Nolte; Africa, Vol. 78, 2008
Subjects: Political power--Demographic aspects, Political power--Social aspects, Power (Social sciences)--Demographic aspects, Power (Social sciences)--Social aspects, Women in public life--Social aspects, Yoruba (African people)--Political aspects, Yoruba (African people)--Social aspects
Without Women, Nothing Can Succeed: Yoruba Women in the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC...militant ethno-nationalist movement of the Yoruba people in south-west Nigeria. Womens inclusion...mouvement ethnonationaliste militant du peuple Yoruba, dans le Sud-Ouest du Nigeria. Il suggere...
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The Use of Human Images in Yoruba Medicines(1)
Journal article by Norma H. Wolff; Ethnology, Vol. 39, 2000
Subjects: Cunas--Philosophy, Dogons (African people)--Philosophy, Indigenous peoples--Rites and ceremonies, Medicine--History, Occult medicine--History, Wood-carved figurines--Usage, Yoruba (African people)--Medicine
THE USE OF HUMAN IMAGES IN YORUBA MEDICINES(1). by Norma H. Wolff Indigenous healers among the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria regularly utilize...the social world. Four major types of Yoruba medicine figures act as surrogates, messengers...
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Aworan: Representing the Self and Its Metaphysical Other in Yoruba Art
Journal article by Babatunde Lawal; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 83, 2001
Subjects: Art criticism, Culture, Indigenous people, Language, Sculpture, Yoruba Tribe
...Representing the Self and Its Metaphysical Other in Yoruba Art by Babatunde Lawal Among the Yoruba of Nigeria and the Republic of Benin, the word...import. It should be emphasized, however, that Yoruba is a tonal language, so that the same word...
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Discourse and Its Disclosures: Yoruba Women and the Sanctity of Abuse
Journal article by Andrew Apter; Africa, Vol. 68, 1998
Subjects: Manners and customs--Ethiopia, Yoruba (African people)--Rites and ceremonies
Discourse and its disclosures: Yoruba women and the sanctity of abuse...cult of Oroyeye is not typical of the Yoruba ritual associations conventionally referred...regionally limited to certain north-eastern Yoruba towns, such as Iye and Itapaji, within...
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The Yoruba Orisha Tradition Comes to New York City
Journal article by Marta Moreno Vega; African American Review, Vol. 29, 1995
Subjects: New York, New York--Music, Yoruba (African people)--Music
The Yoruba Orisha tradition comes to New York City...the pioneer members of a small group of Yoruba traditional practitioners who were instrumental...New York City was Babalawo Pancho Mora (Yoruba name, Ifa Morote), who arrived in New York...
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Nigeria; How Yoruba Art Dazzled the Europeans; Herbert Wendt, a German Science Writer, Said It All: "Modern Ethnologists Have Found the Art of the Yorubas So Astonishingly High in Quality That They Did Not [at First] Ascribe It to a Negro Race." Well, Welcome to an African Civilization Dating Back to 600 AD
Magazine article by Herbert Wendt; New African, October 2006
Subjects: Yoruba (African people)--History, Yoruba (African people)--Research, Yoruba culture--Research
Nigeria; How Yoruba Art Dazzled the Europeans; Herbert Wendt...Ethnologists Have Found the Art of the Yorubas So Astonishingly High in Quality That...Wendt By the 11th century AD, the Yoruba, ruling from the city of Ile Ife, were...
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What Was the Question Again? Yoruba versus Igbo. Killing Twins versus Not Killing Twins. Was It Merely a Case of Evolving Different Answers to the Same Question?
Magazine article by Onyekachi Wambu; New African, May 2009
Subjects: Igbo (African people)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Superstition--Social aspects, Twins--Crimes against
What Was the Question Again? Yoruba versus Igbo. Killing Twins versus Not...different ways. Traditionally, the Yoruba venerated twins, seeing them as a blessing...resist for so long a phenomenon the Yorubas had evolved a different and more humane...
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We Need More Spirit, Less Obedience: Diran Adebayo, Yoruba by Origin, Wonders If Something in Africans' Upbringing Has Led to a Deferential Mindset That Makes It Hard for Them to Get Rid of Bad Rulers as Quickly as They Should
Magazine article by Diran Adebayo; New Statesman, Vol. 134, March 14, 2005
Subjects: Africa--Political aspects, Africa--Social aspects, Africans--Psychological aspects
We Need More Spirit, Less Obedience: Diran Adebayo, Yoruba by Origin, Wonders If Something in Africans Upbringing Has...Rwandans, Southern Africans, even the loud and argumentative Yorubas (my crew). I have a friend, Brother Nye, who is wont to...
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Not Just Music: Rhythm, Language and Poetry
Magazine article; African Business, December 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Routes To Roots: Yoruba Drums From Nigeria (Book)--Book reviews
...Language and Poetry. Routes to Roots Yoruba Drums from Nigeria By Sola Akingbola Arc...Jamiroquai, presents a superb album of Yoruba percussion from Nigeria. He finds his...structures and philosophical poetry of the Yoruba people. Akingbola has spent most of his...
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An African Kingdom in America
Magazine article by Beirne Keefer; American Visions, Vol. 10, February 1995
Subjects: Oyotunji Village, South Carolina--Services, Yoruba (African people)--Exhibitions
...Kingdom of Oyotunji, Nigeria. Capital of the Yoruba people of the Western Hemisphere, Oyotunji...forgotten in this 10-acre paradise of the Yoruba people. His Royal Highness Oba Oseijeman...1981 in Ife, Nigeria, reigns over all Yorubas in the Western Hemisphere from this post...
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newspaper articles on: Yoruba  - 107 results

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Door Opens on Nigerian's Fine Carving
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, March 15, 1998
...chief sculptor from his home region of Yoruba, Olowe of Ise (c. 1875-1938), had created...active patrons of palace sculptors in the Yoruba region. British Museum officials not...is now recognized as the most important Yoruba artist of the 20th century. Fortunately...
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Must We Immigrants Always Speak English?
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 23, 2006
Subjects: Immigrants
...BROWN WHITE Hart Lane Secondary School in Tottenham has pupils with 65 home languages between them, including Flemish, Turkish, Yoruba and Dutch Creole. Three years ago, the nowdeparted head, David Daniels, decided GCSE subjects should be taught in some home...
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Abacha's Successor Seen as Career Military Officer
Newspaper article by Gus Constantine; The Washington Times, June 9, 1998
Subjects: Abacha, Sani, Nigeria
...past. The largest ethnic groups are the Yoruba and the Hausa, each accounting for about...estimated at more than 1 million. The Yoruba are predominant in Lagos and western Nigeria...northern Hausa and Fulani. It was after a Yoruba, Moshood Abiola, emerged as the apparent...
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Nigerian General Appears to Prepare for Civil Rule: Abubakar Sets Election Dates, Frees Prisoners
Newspaper article by Gus Constantine; The Washington Times, October 8, 1998
Subjects: Abacha, Sani, Abubakar, Abdulsalam
...or at least the most vocal, among the Yoruba of Nigerias southwest. This reflects...Of Nigerias 107 million people, the Yoruba make up about 22 percent, roughly the...account for about 18 percent. Traditional Yoruba suspicions were intensified by the election...
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Carving Images of Maternal Glory; Taste of Africa Via Big Easy
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 4, 2006
Subjects: Museums, Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of African Art
...curator and collector is the art of the Yoruba people of Nigeria. More colorful and naturalistic...geometric Bamana style mentioned above, Yoruba art is exemplified by the work of the...According to the wall label, Olowe was a Yoruba court artist whom scholars deem one of...
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encyclopedia articles on: Yoruba  - 28 results

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Yoruba
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
YORUBA yo rooba, people of SW Nigeria and Benin, numbering...Ibadan , and Abeokuta ) are in Yorubaland. The old Yoruba kingdom of Oyo was traditionally one of the largest states...Dahomey, and the growing contact with Europeans divided the Yoruba into a number of small states. In the second half of the...
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Ife
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...According to tradition, Ife is the oldest Yoruba town (founded c.1300). All Yoruba chiefs trace their descent from the first mythological...their ritual superior. Ife was the most powerful Yoruba kingdom until the late 17th cent., when Oyo...
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Iwo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...coffee plantation is located nearby. Iwo was the capital of a Yoruba kingdom (founded in the 17th cent.) that grew rapidly in the 19th cent. by taking in refugees during the Yoruba civil wars. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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Tutuola, Amos
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TUTUOLA, AMOS 1920 97, Nigerian novelist, noted for his idiosyncratic use of Yoruba legend and fantasy in tales written in vernacular African English. His first novel, The Palm-Wine Drunkard (1952), is probably...
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SanterÍa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SANTERIA san t re , san , religion originating in W Africa, developed by Yoruba slaves in Cuba, and practiced by an estimated one million people in the United States. Blending African beliefs with those of...
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