Ogun

Africa's Ogun: old world and new

fromAfrican Systems of Thought

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The second edition of this landmark work is enhanced by new chapters on Ogun worship in the New World. From reviews of the first edition: ... an ethnographically rich contribution to the historical understanding of West African culture, as well as an exploration of the continued…

This dissertation is a comparative analysis of the gift and how it impacts on interpersonal relationship among the Yoruba of Nigeria. The dissertation examines gift exchange as it is practiced among the worshippers of Ògún deity usually commemorated as an annual Olójó festival i…

This thesis will argue for hybridism in Wole Soyinka's dramatic construct of the tragic hero. In most of his so-called metaphysical plays, those that are played out within the Yoruba ritual and mythical worldview, Soyinka appropriates, reconstitutes and extend limits of the rece…