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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Author: Rahmon O. Akinbode
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: Aribidesi Usman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107064600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519

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A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.

Author: Travis Collins
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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Author: William Russell Bascom
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253206381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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"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.

Author: Roland Allen
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
ISBN: 0718840062
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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"If it were once believed that the freedom of churches should be restricted to bring greater control to missions, Roland Allen sets out to overturn this conception. Warning against the danger of imposing greater limits on churches, the Author advocates that all members of the church, 'natives' and foreigners alike, must take an active role in its establishment and daily life. The study divides itself into nine chapters; the first, introducing Allen's standpoint, the second as an opening into thenature and character of Spontaneous Expression. The third chapter deals with modern attempts by 'natives' towards the liberty of their churches. The fear of the doctrine becoming weakened by natives taking it into their own hands is addressed by chapter four and this fear is widened into the realm of the Christian standard of morals in chapter five. Civilisation and enlightenment form the central themes of the sixth chapter. Chapters seven and eight tackle the distinction between the Church andmissionary societies. It is in the final chapter that the future of Spontaneous Expansion is investigated and Allen puts forward his ideas which, as he rightly predicted, were broadly accepted fifty years and longer still after their original publication."

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Category : Igbona (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Author: Insa Nolte
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ISBN: 9781592217557
Category : Politicians
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Author: Geoffrey Parrinder
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Category : Ibadan (Nigeria)
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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Author: Edmund Patrick Thurman Crampton
Publisher: Burns & Oates
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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