Orature And Yoruba Riddles

Author : A. Akinyeme,Akintunde Akinyemi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137502636

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Orature and Yoruba Riddles by A. Akinyeme,Akintunde Akinyemi Pdf

Orature and Yorùbá Riddles takes readers into the hitherto unexplored undercurrents of riddles in Africa. Because of its oral and all too often ephemeral nature, riddles have escaped close scrutiny from scholars. The strength of the Yorùbá as the focus of this study is impressive indeed: a major ethnic group in Africa, with established connections with the black diaspora in North America and the Caribean; a rich oral and written culture; a large and diverse population; and an integrated rural-urban society. The book is divided into six chapters for readers' convenience. When read in sequence, the book provides a comprehensive, holistic sense of Yorùbá creativity where riddles are concerned. At the same time, the book is conceived in a way that each chapter could be read individually. Therefore, those readers seeking understanding of a specific type of riddle may target a single chapter appearing most relevant to her/his curiosity.

Author : William Russell Bascom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Riddles, Yoruba
ISBN : OCLC:30856158

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Literary style in Yoruba riddles by William Russell Bascom Pdf

Author : Adetayo Alabi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000428865

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Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories by Adetayo Alabi Pdf

Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories discusses the oral life stories and poems that Africans, particularly the Yoruba people, have told about the self and community over hundreds of years. Disproving the Eurocentric argument that Africans didn’t produce stories about themselves, the author showcases a vibrant literary tradition of oral autobiographies in Africa and the diaspora. The oral auto/biographies studied in this book show that stories and poems about individuals and their communities have always existed in various African societies and they were used to record, teach, and document history, culture, tradition, identity, and resistance. Genres covered in the book include the panegyric, witches’ and wizards’ narratives, the epithalamium tradition, the hunter’s chant, and Udje of the Urhobo. Providing an important showcase for oral narrative traditions this book will be of interest to students, scholars, and researchers in African and Africana studies, literature and auto/biographical studies.

Author : Toyin Falola,Akintunde Akinyemi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253021564

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Encyclopedia of the Yoruba by Toyin Falola,Akintunde Akinyemi Pdf

“The encyclopedia gives a complex, yet detailed, presentation of the Yorùbá, a dominant ethnic group in West Africa . . . an invaluable resource.” —Yoruba Studies Review The Yoruba people today number more than thirty million strong, with significant numbers in the United States, Nigeria, Europe, and Brazil. This landmark reference work emphasizes Yoruba history, geography and demography, language and linguistics, literature, philosophy, religion, and art. The 285 entries include biographies of prominent Yoruba figures, artists, and authors; the histories of political institutions; and the impact of technology and media, urban living, and contemporary culture on Yoruba people worldwide. Written by Yoruba experts on all continents, this encyclopedia provides comprehensive background to the global Yoruba and their distinctive and vibrant history and culture. “Readers unfamiliar with the Yoruba will find the introduction a concise and valuable overview of their language and its dialects, recent history, mythology and religion, and diaspora movements . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice

Author : Ute Fendler,Doris Löhr
Publisher : Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München AVM
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783954771387

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African Studies Centres Around the World by Ute Fendler,Doris Löhr Pdf

The book “African Studies Centres Around the World – A Network-Based Inventory” compiles a selection of contributions by the directors of eleven African Studies centres from four continents. They comprise Africa’s oldest centre on the continent, at the University of Cape Town, the European centres in Bordeaux, Lisbon and Hradec Králové and the two North American Universities of Florida and Indiana. Central and South America’s contributions to African Studies is represented by the centres in San José, Costa Rica, Santiago de Cuba and Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. The Asian centres are located at Jawaharlal University in Mumbai, India, and at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, South Korea. The eleven chapters show the very diverse history of the centres, explaining their different structures, underpinning the need for more exchange and collaborative research. The volume presents some aspects of the ongoing critical reflections on the historical and political development of African Studies in various parts of the world, disseminating first-hand knowledge while the chapters encourage to open the exchange and collaboration across regional, disciplinary and academic boundaries. With contributions from: Akintunde Akinyemi, Carlos Almeida, Aparajita Biswas, Rina Caceres, Yongkyu Chang, Marta E. Cordies Jackson, Ute Fendler, John H. Hanson, Doris Löhr, Lungisile Ntsebeza, Livio Sansone, Jose da Silva Horta, Petr Skalnik, Celine Thiriot

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316511237

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Decolonizing African Knowledge by Toyin Falola Pdf

Uses textual and visual materials on the 'Self' to understand how African ways of thinking shape the nature of societies.

Author : Akintunde Akinyemi,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1041 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030555177

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The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore by Akintunde Akinyemi,Toyin Falola Pdf

This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve and renew the scholarship of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the Diaspora just as critical concerns about their survival are pushed to the forefront of the field. With five sections on the central themes within orality and folklore – including engagement ranging from popular culture to technology, methods to pedagogy – this handbook is an indispensable resource to scholars, students, and practitioners of oral traditions and folklore preservation alike. This definitive reference is the first to provide detailed, systematic discussion, and up-to-date analysis of African oral traditions and folklore.

Author : Ruthie Meadows
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226828947

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Efficacy of Sound by Ruthie Meadows Pdf

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 Cuba and Yorùbáland, Nigeria, to examine the controversial “Nigerian-style” ritual movement in Cuban Ifá divination. Meadows uses feminist and queer of color theory along with critical studies of Africanity to excavate the relation between utility and affect within translocal ritual music circulations. Meadows traces how translocal Ifá priestesses (ìyánífá), female batá drummers (bataleras), and priests (babaláwo) harness Yorùbá-centric approaches to ritual music and sound to heighten efficacy, achieve desired ritual outcomes, and reshape the conditions of their lives. Within a contentious religious landscape marked by the idiosyncrasies of revolutionary state policy, Nigerian-style Ifá-Òrìṣà is leveraged to transform femininity and masculinity, state religious policy, and transatlantic ritual authority on the island.

Author : Thomas Mákanjúọlá Ilésanmí
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Oral tradition in literature
ISBN : UOM:39015069313818

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Yoruba Orature and Literature by Thomas Mákanjúọlá Ilésanmí Pdf

Author : Esther Mukewa Lisanza,Leonard Muaka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783030234799

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African Languages and Literatures in the 21st Century by Esther Mukewa Lisanza,Leonard Muaka Pdf

This edited book examines the crucial role still played by African languages in pedagogy and literatures in the 21st century, generating insights into how they effectively serve cultural needs across the African continent and beyond. Boldly positioning African languages as key resources in the 21st century, chapters focus on themes such as language revolt by marginalized groups at grassroots level, the experience of American students learning African languages, female empowerment through the use of African languages in music, film and literary works, and immigration issues. The contributions are written by scholars of language, literature, education and linguistics, and the book will be of interest to students and scholars in these and related areas.

Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781906924706

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Oral Literature in Africa by Ruth Finnegan Pdf

Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and World Oral Literature Project. A free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s is hosted by the World Oral Literature Project (http: //www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html) and can also be accessed from publisher's website.

Author : Ambrose Adikamkwu Monye
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0761838996

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Proverbs in African Orature by Ambrose Adikamkwu Monye Pdf

Proverbs in African Orature examines how preliterate Africans handle oral literacy criticism of their proverbs. The study demonstrates that Africans employ literary styles and strategies in speaking their proverbs. It also shows that the notion and practice of literary aesthetics are indigenous to African peoples. In studying these proverbs, the author goes beyond mere translation or contextual analysis and employs a new empirical approach. The approach involves the researcher recording live scenes of proverb use, appreciation, and criticism by the people of Aniocha in Delta State, Nigeria. By examining the literary background and the present study, the author demonstrates that scholars have indeed recognized the need for this new approach but have not yet tried it. Monye is the first. The author also situates proverbs in the context of other African oral forms, drawing copious examples from the Anoicha Igbo people. This study and analysis reveals that Anoicha proverbs have literary value and that the people apply their folk critical canons in the appreciation and criticism of these proverbs. Proverbs in African Orature is a highly appropriate work for African Studies scholars, especially those focusing on oral literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African literature
ISBN : IND:30000081087029

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Journal of African Children's & Youth Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Adélékè Adéèkó
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780253026729

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Arts of Being Yoruba by Adélékè Adéèkó Pdf

There is a culturally significant way of being Yorùbá that is expressed through dress, greetings, and celebrations—no matter where in the world they take place. Adélékè Adék documents Yorùbá patterns of behavior and articulates a philosophy of how to be Yorùbá in this innovative study. As he focuses on historical writings, Ifá divination practices, the use of proverbs in contemporary speech, photography, gendered ideas of dressing well, and the formalities of ceremony and speech at celebratory occasions, Adéékó contends that being Yorùbá is indeed an art and Yorùbá-ness is a dynamic phenomenon that responds to cultural shifts as Yorùbá people inhabit an increasingly globalized world.

Author : Teresa N. Washington
Publisher : Oya's Tornado
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Architects of Existence by Teresa N. Washington Pdf