Download or read book YORUBA LEGENDS written by Various and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOTE: This book has been illustrated and published by the students of Edgbarrow School in Berkshire, England as a special project to raise funds for their Ghana Sponsorship campaign. DESCRIPTION: The Yoruba people are descendants from a variety of West African communities. They are united by Geography, History, Religion and most importantly their Language. In this volume you will find 31 stories and tales like: AKITI THE HUNTER, SONS OF STICKS, WHY WOMEN HAVE LONG HAIR THE LEOPARD-MAN, THE COOKING POT and many more. You also will find a further nine stories of the adventures of Tortoise and the many mischievous things he gets up to. Many years ago, before the advent of the West African slave trade, the Yoruba people inhabited an area which stretched, along the coast of West Africa, all the way inward and down to Angola in South West Africa. Today this is not the case. The legends and fairy stories in this book belong to the Yoruba. They relate the adventures of men and animals, and try to explain the mysteries of Nature-Why Women have Long Hair, How the Leopard got his Spots, the Three Magicians, the Boa-Constrictor, How the Elephant got his Trunk and more. These stories grew from the imagination of the people. We read these folk-tales for their quaintness and humour, for their sympathy with Nature, and because we find in them the ideas and ideals, not just of one man, but of a race of people. In modern times we have begun paying close attention to folklore - old tales, not invented by one man, but belonging to the whole people; not written down, but told by parents to their children, and so handed on for hundreds of years. The legends express primitive notions of right and wrong. As a rule, the wicked are punished and the good rewarded; and that, we feel, is as it should be. We may weep at the death of rascally Tortoise, but we may also feel that he somehow has deserved his fate!
Download or read book Yoruba Legends written by M. I. Ogumefu and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yoruba Trickster Tales written by Oyekan Owomoyela and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty-three tales involving Aj'ap'a, a tortoise with human traits who has relationships with an assortment of animal and human characters
Download or read book Yoruba Myths written by Ulli Beier and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1980-10-02 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This mysterious, poetic and often amusing collection of myths illustrates the religion and thought of the West African Yoruba People.
Download or read book The Rare Leaf written by Olola Olabode Ogunlana and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is a rich tradition of storytelling within Yoruba culture, with stories passed down through the generations but never written down .... This book sets out to present a particular sub-group of these: oral stories which have some kind of historical basis, handed down in the Ogere-Remo area (now in Ogun State) in the Remo dialect of Yoruba."--Page 10.
Download or read book Gods and Heroes written by Oladele Olusanya and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gods and Heroes is the first volume of the Itan—Legends of the Golden Age trilogy about the thousand-year story of the Yoruba people. It starts with the establishment of Ile-Ife by Oduduwa and the great sacrifice of the heroine Moremi. The ancient gods of Yorubaland, Obatala, Orunmila, Ogun, and Olokun all play their part, as well as the great heroes and heroines of antiquity—Oranmiyan, Sango, Oya, Oba Esigie of Benin, and Obanta of Ijebuland. The author uses the genre of the historical novel in a refreshing and imaginative fashion to present the whole tableau of Yoruba history. The result is a vast and rich panorama enlivened with traditional myths and legends seen through the eyes of a single Yoruba family and the Old Woman, the fabled storyteller.
Download or read book Yoruba Legends and Their History written by M. I. Ogumefu and published by . This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legends from Yorubland written by Kemi Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yoruba Legends and Their History Paperback written by Ogumefu I M and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary of the Yoruba tribe is widely known. Ogumefu's book shows a glimpse of the richness of the culture and beliefs.
Download or read book Tales of Yoruba Gods and Heroes written by Harold Courlander and published by New York : Crown Publishers. This book was released on 1973 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Myths, legends and heroic tales of the Yoruba people of West Africa"--Cover subtitle.
Download or read book The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present written by Aribidesi Usman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.
Download or read book Esu Elegbara Chance Uncertainly In Yoruba Mythology written by Ogundipe, Ayodele and published by Kwara State University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original work is a two-volume study of Èṣù Ẹlégbára, a Yoruba deity. Volume one consisted of six chapters, three appendices, and a bibliography. The texts of praise poems (orìkí), songs, and narratives selected from research in the field comprise volume two.
Download or read book LEGENDS of AFRICA 5 BOOKSET WHOLESALE SPECIAL at 60 OFF written by Anon E Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LEGENDS of AFRICA 5 BOOKSET WHOLESALE SPECIAL at 60% OFF RRP! Five ancient and forgotten African volumes containing 116 authentic African Myths and Legends, Tales and Fables from all four corners of the continent – One volume from ANCIENT EGYPT, Two volumes from SOUTH AFRICA, One volume from West Africa’s YORUBA people PLUS a special volume of west AFRICAN ANANSI "The Trickster Spider" Stories A SPECIAL WHOLESALE PRICE – 5 BOOKS FOR THE PRICE OF 3! Stories and Legends full of ancient African lore and wisdom. 116 African themed folk tales spread across 5 books from all four corners of the continent. Tales like: The ancient Egyptian story of "The Adventures of Sanehat", The Zulu tale of "The Lost Message", The Yoruba tale of "The Iroko Tree", and The Anansi tale of "Anansi And The Lion" ....... plus 111 more! The books in this set are: ISBN: 978-1-909302-15-0 - Old Hendriks Tales ISBN: 978-1-907256-33-2 - Yoruba Legends ISBN: 978-1-907256-52-3 - Ananzi Stories ISBN: 978-0-956058-45-4 - South African Folk Tales ISBN: 978-1-909302-34-1 - Egyptian Tales
Download or read book Kingdoms of the Yoruba written by Robert Smith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1969 and as a second edition in 1976, this book gives a general account of the major Yoruba kingdoms and provides a synthesis of Yoruba and Igbomina history, culture and archaeology. The reasons for, and the chronology of the decline and fall of Old Oyo are also discussed. Much of the history reconstructed in this book was done so almost wholly from oral histories, with all evidence being subjected to rigorous examination.
Download or read book Kingdoms of the Yoruba written by Robert Sydney Smith and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of what has been described as "this minor classic" has been extensively revised to take account of advances in Nigerian historiography. The twenty million Yorubas are one of the largest and most important groups of people on the African continent. Historically they were organized in a series of autonomous kingdoms and their past is richly recorded in oral tradition and archaeology. From the fifteenth century onwards there are descriptions by visitors and from the nineteenth century there are abundant official reports from administrators and missionaries. Yoruba sculpture in stone, metal, ivory, and wood is famous. Less well-known are the elaborate and carefully designed constitutional forms which were evolved in the separate kingdoms, the methods of warfare and diplomacy, the oral literature, and the religion based on the worship of a "high god" surrounded by a pantheon of more accessible deities. Many of these aspects are shown in the drawings and photographs which have been used-for the first time-to illustrate this distinguished work.
Download or read book Legends of the Yoruba written by M. I. Ogumefu and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yoruba Mythology written by Matt Clayton and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-11-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you like stories about kings and queens, spirits and monsters, or tricksters and villains? If so, this book is for you. Containing delightful stories from the Yoruba and other West African peoples, this book presents tales of courage and cunning, virtue and vice, and fortunes found and lost. Some of these stories draw upon actual historical persons and events, while others are purely fictional, but each story has something to delight any reader. Here are just a few of the stories you will find inside this book: How Queen Moremi saved her people from their enemies Why King Oranyan's staff still stands in its place today How Gassire gave up dreams of a kingdom to become a singer of tales How a king wanted to know what it was like to be poor and found out the hard way How clever commoners outwitted the kings who wanted to kill them How the Ashanti came to farm yams How a baby who was not yet ready to be born defeated the monster Sasabonsam How the wise and clever Kumba saved her village from a man-eating lion How Kigbo the farmer learned the hard way that it is not wise to play around with spirits And much, much more! Scroll up and click the "add to cart" button to enjoy each of these captivating West African stories!
