Buy this book yoruba religion has a direct link to a. This study is concerned with the culture of the yoruba people in relation to questions of identity and interaction with other civilisations, particularly the influences of angloamerican culture, and. Iss book group discussion questions international schools services. Johnson believes that mohammed belo6 influenced the yorubas to begin to think that their ancestors were muslims johnson 1921.
Des dearlove and stuart crainer, founders of the thinkers50. The maasai have many dances5 for different events their lives. Yoruba language culture abebooks shop for books, art. Some examples rituals and rites abound in yoruba traditional religion. Moremi was a princess who hailed from offa, but was married to the ooni of ileife. With business becoming ever global, there are a raft of books available on. A sociocultural analysis of yoruba discourse patterns in selected child welfare clinics in southwestern nigeria. Now available in korean, japanese, chinese taiwan, indonesian, turkish, russian, dutch, german and french. Other important art forms are masks, pottery, weaving, beadwork and working with metal. They are embodied in ifa divination, and are known as the tripartite book of enlightenment. Ifayoruba fundamentals of the yoruba religion orisa worship chief fama. Please patronise our products by purchasing them at iseyoruba. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the culture map.
A culture map represents cultural patterns based on seven value clusters, of which each. Ibadans establishment is generally assumed to be immediately after this event. The yoruba people iv page ife and thus became the first oba meaning king or ruler in the yoruba language of who today are known as the yoruba people. Thank you all that like our page, goodness shall be your portions. A sociocultural analysis of yoruba discourse patterns in. A history of the yoruba people is an audacious comprehensive exploration of the founding and growth of one of the most influential groups in africa. Yoruba is a tonal language, and a dialect continuum on the yoruboid branch of the nigercongo language family. Traditional yoruba philosophy and contemporary african realities by segun gbadegesin peter lang, 1991. She had only one child, a young boy barely in his teens, named oluorogbo. Every artistic realmmusic, theater, literature, etc. With this intense faith in beads, yoruba have made waist beads for fertility, beauty, seduction, necklaces bracelets and many other objects central to daily and religious life using seeds, husks, mollusc shells, cowrie shells, indigenous brass beads as well as indigenous and. Appadurai, cities and citizenship, public culture, 8 1996, 195. The yoruba numbered more than 20 million at the turn of the 21st century.
Breaking through the invisible boundaries of global business kindle edition by meyer, erin. It is illuminating and engaging and strangely funny in its quaint often sententious tone. Yoruba people are a large ethnolinguistic group or ethnic nation in africa, and the majority of them speak the yoruba language. Her research interests include yoruba language, culture and history, yoruba women and creole studies. They are embodied in ifa divination, and are known as the tripartite book of enlightenment in yorubaland and in its diaspora.
Nevertheless, ancestral cultures directly related to the yorubas bloomed to the north of niger. Understanding that culture shapes people who shape business is vital to win. Kola abimbola is a lecturer in law at the university of leicester, uk. In this fun and instructive book, international business expert erin meyer offers key tactics and strategies to help businesspeople overcome cultural obstacles and.
Let us do it, the way it is usually done, so that we may have the usual result. I would recommend it as mustread text for all yorubas and indeed all interested nigerians, beninois and brazilians. When we pray with focus intention and righteous heart, our words become potent with bara and our prayers are answered prayer is the means by which the aborisha enters into communion with the irunmole all the heavenly beings it is through prayer that we are able to influence the. Breaking through the invisible boundaries of global business hardcover may 27, 2014. He was previously an assistant professor at seattle university where he taught critical thinking, philosophy of the human person, and philosophy of law. I like this book as it helps me and the groups i work with to understand cultural differences and act on them. She is most known for writing the 2014 book, the culture map.
Stay connected to your students with prezi video, now in microsoft teams. This is for the promotion of our authors and language. This is one version of a creation story that is told by the yoruba to explain the beginning of the universe. The notion of culture embraces many facets of life including the arts, tradition and behaviour. The dialect of the edo people also bears a few similarities to yoruba, and in some parts of edo state, indigenes even bear yoruba names. Yoruba is spoken by over 50 million people, and is the third most spoken language in africa. Yoruba cultural thought is a witness of two epochs. Adebanji akintoye deploys four decades of historiography research with current interpretation and analyses to present the most complete and authoritative volume on the yoruba to date. With this tool you can compare how two or more cultures build trust, give. Thats because i felt like if christianity the way it was taught to me was full of sht, then the whole topic was contaminated. Interested in teaching the culture map material in one of your courses. The first epoch is a history of cosmogony and cosmology. Brief history of yoruba people, culture, religion and.
Today many of the large cities in nigeria including lagos, ibadan, and abeokuta are in yorubaland. At the east and the north, the yoruba culture arrives at its limits in the niger river. The culture map breaking through the invisible boundaries of global business. Yoruba culture provides a true picture of this concept. Projectiyoruba is a labour of love that celebrates african art through fabric, wood and stories aso,igi, ati itan. A history of the yoruba people ebook by stephen adebanji. List of books and articles about yoruba people online. Just like the maasai in tanzania, the maasai in kenya are being pressured by their government to modernize and stay in permanent settlements, which makes it difficult to sustain their cattle herding lifestyles. There are beautiful sculptures that have been made with wood and brass.
Yoruba is spoken by the yoruba people in nigeria, benin, and togo, and in other parts of africa with migrant yorubans. One response to yoruba people of nigeria, the history, religion, and arts ojoade modupe july 18, 2011 at 2. Before i got serious about this way of life, i resisted anything that had anything to do with religion. To understand thoroughly sexuality in the context of the yoruba culture is to be objective, sincere and practical. Yet the syncretism between the yoruban religion that the slaves brought to the island and the catholicism of their masters is, in my opinion, the underpinning of cuban culture. Based on erin meyers book the culture map, this tool allows you to click on whichever countries you are working with and receive a cultural mapping of the. Musically, the yoruba are well known for their drumming.
Great yoruba pioneers july 1, 2017 by webadmin 0 comments history notable yoruba sons and daughters have excelled in different academic and professional fields of medicine, engineering, law, banking, management, etc. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Here, youll find information about my book, videos, blogs, and other information that i. As well as the visual and decorative power, the yoruba people attributed spiritual power and religious meaning to beads. The book business culture design campus, 2016 provides detailed information. Yoruba culture consists of cultural philosophy, religion and folktales. The yoruba people, of which there is at the present time more than 25 million, occupies the western south corner of nigeria, by all the edge of dahomey and it extends until he himself dahomey. The old yoruba kingdom of oyo was traditionally one of the largest states of w africa, but. In the culture map, insead professor erin meyer is your guide through this subtle. Gender and the politics of metaphor in oyo yoruba religion by j. The yoruba constitute approximately 35 percent of nigerias total population, and around 40 million individuals throughout the region of west africa. Oduduwa between 1100 ad and 1700 ad, the yoruba kingdom of ife experienced a golden age, the oba or ruler of ife is referred to as the ooni of ife. It reminds us of the beauty, pain, violence and resounding relevance of yoruba culture easily mirrored in other african ethnicities. Every culture has stories that explain how the universe was created.
Rethinking yoruba culture in the light of yoruba origins 431 and not arabians or muslims from mecca. Erin meyer born august 22, 1971 is an american author and professor based in paris. Culture maps make culture tangible, discussable and shapeable. Akintoye links the yoruba past with the present, broadening and transcending samuel johnson in scope and time, and reviving both the passion and agenda that are over a century old, to reveal the long history and definable identity of a people and an ethnicity, one of the most important in africa and the african diaspora. Currently, even though edo state has its peculiar dialect and culture, its traditional leadership system is almost exactly the same as that of traditional yorubas. Yoruba, one of the three largest ethnic groups of nigeria, concentrated in the southwestern part of that country. Much smaller, scattered groups live in benin and northern togo. Moremi was not only a very beautiful young woman, she was also very brave and a true patriot. Abimbola is the coordinator of the international congress of orisa tradition and culture, the secretary of the international society for african philosophy and studies.
Breaking through the invisible boundaries of global business. She is completing her manuscript on yoruba grammar. Seeks to propagate yoruba proverbs and increase their usage thereby preserving the yoruba language and the wisdom of the yoruba people for posterity. Yoruba people of nigeria, the history, religion, and arts. Mosadomi is a poet, who has authored several articles in books and journals on creole studies, african language and gender, african linguistics and pedagogy. First published in 1921, and cited on the africas best 100 books list, this is a standard work on the history of the yorubas from the earliest times to the beginning of the british protectorate the first part of the book discusses the people, their country and language, religion, government, land. This book provides detailed instruction of practical usage of ifa by practitioners and nonpractitioners and answers many questions with respect to how to pray the ifa way.
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