Author: Festus Wale Ogunbitan Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 9781436302722 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This is an epic play written in free verse on the Yoruba mythology which believes that Oduduwa, the first Ooni (ruler) of Ife (the earth) sent his sixteen sons to go and fetch the ocean water to cure his eyes which was going blind. The sixteen sons left home to search for the ocean water after the Ifa oracle foretold that the ocean water was the only source of regeneration for the blindness. The alternative was if the high priest of Orishanla, bestowed his divine healing through a special soap that foamed like the ocean water. Unfortunately, Orishanla's sacred soap was not available to perform this ritual; therefore, Oduduwa had no other means but to send his sixteen sons to the ocean, which had moved far away from Ile-Ife since Oduduwa created the earth on top of the ocean water from the sacred landing spot in Ife. The sixteen sons left home riding horses for the journey in search of the ocean water. On their way through the forest, they were unexpectedly dispersed and took separate routes through the act of God, who dispersed them with whirlwind and clouds. In the end, only the youngest of the sixteen sons, named Obokun, came back home with the ocean water to cure the blind eyes of their father. The remaining fifteen stayed away on the road and founded new Kingdoms Obokun later went back and founded his own kingdom in Ilesha.
Author: Robert Sydney Smith Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press ISBN: 9780299116040 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 196
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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.
Author: Andrew Apter Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022650641X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 217
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Herskovits's heritage -- Creolization and connaissance -- Notes from Ekitiland -- The blood of mothers -- Ethnogenesis from within -- Afterword: beyond the mirror of narcissus
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004618074 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 455
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Eighteen authors from 10 countries offer an assessment of the role of ideology in the emergence and development of early states. In a comparative perspective the significance of ideology in the processes that led to formation of states in Europe, Africa, Meso-America and Polynesia is discussed by specialists in the fields of anthropology, history and archaeology. Special attention is given to subjects such as the concept of ideology, regional comparison, the reconstruction of ideologies on the basis of archaeological data, gender relationships, coercion, legitimacy, sacred kingship, and ideology and change (in an introductory chapter) and a concluding discussion. The findings of this volume will not only be of interest to anthropologists, historians and archaeologists, but to all those interested in the complex interaction of ideological and political developments.
Author: Festus Ogunbitan Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1456895273 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 698
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Lyric poems from around the world is an adaptation of history into literature for further understanding and interpreting ancient and contemporary history. Adaptation of stories in this book is based on Aristotle’s Poetics—his purgation theory for intellectual and moral purification of the soul. The plot construction is characterized with cultural icons and symbolisms of religious and spiritual practices and beliefs. Lines are constructed to explicate the impact of gender, politics, religion, law, and culture within the framework of comparative literature—philosophy, psychology, history and the art, genre or a literary movement.
Author: Elizabeth Isichei Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521455992 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 596
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This comprehensive and detailed exploration of the African past, from prehistory to approximately 1870, is intended to provide a fully up-to-date complement to the Cambridge History of Africa. Reflecting several emphases in recent scholarship, it focusses on the changing modes of production, on gender relations and on ecology, laying particular stress on viewing 'history from below'. A distinctive theme is to be found in its analyses of cognitive history. The work falls into three sections. The first comprises a historiographic analysis, and covers the period from the dawn of prehistory to the end of the Early Iron Age. The second and third sections are, for the most part, organised on regional lines; the second section ends in the sixteenth century; the third carries the story on to 1870. A second volume, now in preparation, will cover the period from 1870 to 1995. This book attempts a more rounded view of African history than most of the other textbooks on the subject addressed to a (largely) undergraduate level student. Earlier histories have tended to ignore some of the current foci in the scholarly literature on Africa, generally not reflected in the textbooks: these include discussions of topical issues like ecology and gender. Isichei's book is also more radical.
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