"The primary focus of the book is about the intellectual production of the prominent Yoruba intelligentsia outside of the academy. The academic mode has often privileged itself at the expense of other sites of production and voices. In this book, Toyin Falola analyzes the broad …
"The primary focus of the book is about the intellectual production of the prominent Yoruba intelligentsia outside of the academy. The academic mode has often privileged itself at the expense of other sites of production and voices. In this book, Toyin Falola analyzes the broad …
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…
The bàtá is one of the most important and representative percussion traditions of the people in southwest Nigeria, and is now learnt and performed around the world. In Cuba, their own bàtá tradition derives from the Yorùbá bàtá from Africa yet has had far more research attention…
The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern African history. From the fifteenth century to the present, millions of Africans have been dispersed -- many of them forcibly, others driven by economic need or political persecution -- to other continents, crea…