Yoruba Books at KU Libraries
African Textiles Today by Call Number: NK8987 .S674 2012 (Art & Architecture LibraryISBN: 1588343804Publication Date: London : The British Museum Press ; [Washington, DC] : Smithsonian Books, in association with BritisIncludes a chapter on "Kanga, capulana and shweshwe : printed cloth of Eastern and Southern Africa."
Yoruba Art and Language by Call Number: N7399.N5 A25 2014ISBN: 9781107047440Publication Date: 2014-09-29Introduction : on the centrality of Africa in African art studies
Orí : no òrìṣà blesses a person without the consent of his/her orí
Àṣẹ : the empowered word must come to pass
Ọ̀ṣun : the corpulent woman whose waist two arms cannot encompass
Ọ̀rúnmìlà : henceforth, Ifá priests will ride horses
We greet Aṣọ before we greet its wearer
Àkó : re/minding is the antidote for forgetfulness
Ilé-Ifẹ̀ : the place where the day dawns
Yorùbá aesthetics : ìwà, ìwà is what we are searching for, ìwà
Tomorrow, today’s elder sibling.
Yoruba by Call Number: N7399.N5 L38 2012ISBN: 9788874395873Publication Date: 2012-06-01The Yoruba Cosmology
Divine origin of art
Inner and outer beauty
Becoming a professional artist
Art as food for the eyes
Material and color symbolism
Verbal and visual imagery of the head
Using art to represent, honor, and communicate with deities Male deities and Female deities.
The Oral Traditions in Ile -Ife by Call Number: GR351.32.Y56 O48 2010ISBN: 9781933146652Publication Date: 2009-10-30Folk literature, Yoruba --History and criticism.
Yoruba (African people) --Folklore.
Yoruba (African people) --Religion.
Oral tradition --Nigeria.
Ethnophilosophy --Nigeria.
Folk religion --Nigeria.
Religion and literature --Nigeria.
The Yoruba in Transition by Call Number: DT515.45.Y67 Y75 2006ISBN: 1594601348Publication Date: 2006-05-01Yoruba (African people) --History --Congresses.
Yoruba (African people) --Ethnic identity --Congresses.
Yoruba (African people) --Social conditions --Congresses.
Nigeria --Social conditions --Congresses.
Nigeria --Ethnic relations --Congresses.
City of 201 Gods by ISBN: 9780520265554Publication Date: 2011-12-13City of two hundred one gods
City of two hundred and one gods
Yoruba (African people) --Nigeria --Ife --Religion.
Ife (Nigeria) --Religion.
A History of the Yoruba People by Call Number: DT515.45.Y67 A365 2010ISBN: 9782359260052Publication Date: 2010-01-01The beginnings; The development of early Yoruba society Before Oduduwa: Ife in the ninth to tenth century. The revolution in Ife: tenth to eleventh century. The primacy of Ife: eleventh to fifteenth century. Traditions of kingdom founders. The kingdoms of Yorubaland. The politics of kingdom rule. The kingdoms and the economy: part I The kingdoms and the economy: part II The frontier effect. The great Oyo Empire.The fall of the Oyo Empire. Yorubaland in the nineteenth century: the wars of change. Yorubaland in the nineteenth century: other agencies of change. The Yoruba diaspora. The politics of the twentieth century
The social transformations in the twentieth century.
Orisa by Call Number: BL2480.Y6 P47 2004ISBN: 1592213731Publication Date: 2005-08-01Statistical inference in Ifa divination / Dahud Kehinde Shangodoyin and Oluwayemisi Oyeronke Ojo Iden festival / Yomi Akinyeye Spirit possession in the Egba festival / Lawrence Oyewole Arohunmolase Masks and masques in Yoruba ritual festivals / Jubril Adesegun Dosumu A re-appraisal of the activities of Esu and moral responsibility in Yoruba religion / Danoye Oguntola-Laguda Cultural continuities / Joyce Marie Jackson and Fehintola Mosadomi Isese heritages / K. Noel Amherd The Ipanodu ceremony and the history of Orisa worship in Nigeria and Cuba / Michael Marcuzzi "Örö patáki aganjú" / Jo Anna Hunter The scattering of Oduduwa’s children / Faola Ifagboyede From shrines to glass cases / Anna Catalani Ritualizing social identity and globalizing themes in Cuban Santeria / Anthony Attah Agbali Yoruba diasporic performance / Joni L. Jones Embodied Orisa worship / Ikuko Koike (Re)storying Yoruba cultural myth to unify the double conscious of African American women in the U.S. / Kidogo Kennedy I got a home in dat rock / Kokahvah Zauditu-Selassie Appropriation and transformation / Sabrina Collins
The Yoruba Today by Call Number: DT513 .E23ISBN: 0521226562Publication Date: 1980-05-08How the Yoruba language, culture has evolved over the years. Especially now that it seems so many people are forgetting their roots.
Ancient Text Messages of the Yoruba Bata Drum by Call Number: ML1038.B38 V56 2010ISBN: 9780754667537Publication Date: 2010-04-28Batá music --History and criticism.
Drum language --Nigeria.
Yoruba (African people) --Music --History and criticism
Satires of Power in Yoruba Visual Culture by Call Number: N7399.N5 O43 2013ISBN: 9781611630374Publication Date: 2013-04-01Art, Yoruba.
Satire in art.
Political satire, Nigerian (English)
Power (Social sciences) in art.
Art --History
Online Resources
- Language and Popular Culture in Africa"Language and Popular Culture in Africa is a web-based project set up by Johannes Fabian and Vincent de Rooij of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. The main aim of LPCA is to document and further the study of expressions of popular language and culture in Africa. This is accomplished in two ways. First of all, by making available, in LPCA Text Archives and Archives of Popular Swahili, texts that express and mediate forms of African popular culture, and secondly, by publishing the Journal of Language and Popular Culture in Africa which publishes studies of African popular texts."
- ASE and the senses in understandings of Yoruba Arts and Culture
My own bodily, multisensorial experience was crucial to a more profound understanding (òye) of Yorùbá art, and the culture and history that shape it. This process of watching, listening, carving, making mistakes, being corrected by example, and trying again, was a transformative sensorial experience for me. Slowly my body-mind learned to carve as my adze-strokes became more precise and effective and the image in my mind took shape through the actions of my body. - Yoruba Arts and Culture
The Yoruba people live on the west coast of Africa in Nigeria and can also be found in the eastern Republic of Benin and Togo. Because the majority of the slaves brought to the Americas were from West Africa Yoruban descendants can also be found in Brazil, Cuba, the Caribbean, and the United States. - The Pattern of Yoruba History. Dr Saburi
THE history of the indigenous peoples of West Africa is ripe
for intensive research. The inevitable starting point is their
traditional accounts; for since they were non-literate until
comparatively recent times, their historian cannot expect to
base his work on the normal raw materials of written documents.
Happily, the research has begun, and the purpose of this short
article is to summarize what a preliminary study of the traditional accounts of one of the peoples of West Africa has revealed of their history. - Gender in Yoruba Religious Change
This paper explores the relevance of gender to the reception of Christianity and
to early church life in nineteenth-century Yorubaland. These were profoundly
shaped by the gender conceptions prevalent in indigenous society and religion. Though the indigenous gods (ori§a) lacked gender as a xed or intrinsic attribute,
gender conceptions were projected on to them. Witchcraft was mostly attributed
to women both as its victims and as its perpetrators, and with men and ancestral
cults chiefly responsible for its control. - The Odùduwà Myth and the Farce of Yorùbá Unity
The Yorùbá people, with a population of about twenty-five million, constitute one of the largest single ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa. They are spread across four West African countries, Nigeria, Benin Republic, Togo and Sierra Leone, the largest concentration being in Nigeria. The Yorùbá people in Nigeria, the focus of this study, are the dominant group in south-western Nigeria. With the carving of the Nigerian Federation into smaller states, the Yorùbá came fully to occupy six states, namely Lagos, Ògùn, Òyó, Òsun, Ondó, and Èkìtì. Kwara and Kogi, which were carved out of the former Northern Region, are partly Yorùbá states. The Yorùbá, though culturally homogenous, were differentiated into regional sub-groups, like the Òyó, Ìjèbú, Ifè, Èkìtì, Ègbá, Ìjèsà, Ondó, Ìkálè, Ìlàje, Àkókó and others, obviously from very early times. - The Yoruba: A New History
The deep-time history of the Yorùbá is the subject of this book. It is an account of the experiences and events that shaped the long-term history of the ancestral Yorùbá people; the generative actions that they used to translate their experiences into new practices or traditions; and the principles and values that made life meaningful for them between ca. 300 BC and AD 1840. Based on new questions, evidence, and conceptual frameworks, this book offers the opportunity to rethink Yorùbá history in new ways.
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The book comprises ten chapters divided into five parts. The first chapter lays out the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological frameworks that shape the themes and contents of the volume. I make the case why it is necessary to bring empirical-, comparative-, and theoreticalminded habits to the study of Yorùbá history. In chapter 2, I provide a sketch of the historical groundwork that laid the foundation for the emergence of the Yorùbá world. - Osogbo and the art of Heritage
Heritage as source : histories and images of Osun Osogbo
Heritage as novelty : revitalizing Yoruba art in the spirit of modernism
Heritage as project : hybridity and the reauthentication of the Osun Grove
Heritage as style : travel, interaction, and the branding of Osogbo art
Heritage as spectacle : image and attention in the Osun Osogbo Festival
Heritage as remembrance : history, photography, and styles of imagination
Heritage as control : from art and religion to media and mediation
Coda : A final note on heritage as presence. - Yoruba Nine Centuries of African Arts and Thoughts
The evolvement of the Yoruba African arts and the image of how people of the Outside world portrayed the ways the history changed for the past couple of centuries. - The Vitality of Yoruba Culture in the Americas
How did Africans create homes for themselves and maintain
ancestral practices after being forcefully taken across the Middle
Passage as enslaved people into various regions of the New and
Old Worlds? In the Americas, they found themselves in a place
clearly distinct from African cultural and geographical landscapes
and were forced to adapt to strange climates and contend with alien
cultures unfamiliar to those of their homeland.