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Yoruba
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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2009
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Yo·ru·ba / ˈyôrəbə/ • n. (pl. same or -bas ) 1. a member of a people of southwestern Nigeria and Benin.
2. the Kwa language of this people and an official language of Nigeria.
• adj. of or relating to the Yoruba or their language.
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Yoruba Creativity: Fiction, Language, Life and Songs
Magazine article from: The International Journal of African Historical Studies; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Yoruba Creativity: Fiction, Language, Life and...international conference, "Perspectives on Yoruba History and Culture," held at the University...attended by scholars from throughout the Yoruba Diaspora. Conference participants focused...
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The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 12/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World. Edited by Toyin Falola...important themes in African diaspora historiography is the Yoruba diaspora. Although the subject of the Yoruba has generated an impressive list of academic publications...
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Yoruba culture still celebrated today
Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Tribune, The; 2/14/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...2006 More than 25 million people are a part of Yoruba language, religion and lifestyle The Yoruba language, which is recognized as the second...25 million people participating in it. The Yoruba people, who practice several religions, claim...
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Yoruba Identity and Power Politics
Magazine article from: The International Journal of African Historical Studies; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Yoruba Identity and Power Politics. Edited by...00. In this volume on current trends in Yoruba historiography, the editors, Toyin Falola and Ann Genova, take the work of the Yoruba historian, S.O. Biobaku, as their inspiration...
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Yoruba // Nine centuries of African art and thought
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/4/1990; ; 700+ words
; There is a saying among the Yoruba people that "the world is a journey...West African culture. The exhibit "Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and...and Europe. The exhibit showcases Yoruba art from the 12th century through the...
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Yoruba Proverbs
Magazine article from: Western Folklore; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; Yoruba Proverbs. By Oyekan Owomoyela. (Lincoln...massive collection of over five thousand Yoruba proverbs is the largest of its kind to date...and "Truisms." Each proverb is given in Yoruba, followed by an English translation and...
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The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World
Magazine article from: Ibero-americana; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...and Matt D. Childs, [eds.], The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World. Bloomington...and innovations in African and American Yoruba communities. The theoretical perspective...focus on a diverse set of aspects of the Yoruba diaspora "in the Atlantic World" (p...
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Yoruba Bata Goes Global: Artists, Culture Brokers, and Fans.(Book review)
Magazine article from: African Studies Quarterly; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Yoruba Bata Goes Global: Artists, Culture Brokers, and...tradition, and the challenges of globalization. Yoruba Bata Goes Global analyses these issues. Undoubtedly, a book on a Yoruba art form, bata drumming, it situates this old...
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How Yoruba art dazzled the Europeans
Magazine article from: New African; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...found the art of the Yorubas so astonishingly...century AD, the Yoruba, ruling from the...the culture of the Yorubas with that of the Mediterranean ... The Yoruba Empire consisted...buildings. The Yoruba concept of the universe...capital city of the Yorubas. Archaeological...
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Toyin Falola and Ann Genova (eds), Yoruba Identity and Power Politics.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Africa; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Yoruba language, the groups' Yoruba identity was disputed deep...confirms the existence of pre-'Yoruba' settlers. He further suggests...nationalist History of the Yorubas, which ascribed slave origins...that relationships within the Yoruba nation continue to be characterized...
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Yoruba
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Yoruba PRONUNCIATION: YAWR-uh-buh LOCATION...POPULATION: 5.3 million LANGUAGE: Yoruba RELIGION: Ancestral religion; Islam; Christianity 1 • INTRODUCTION The Yoruba are one of the largest African ethnic groups...
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Yoruba empire of Oyo
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Yoruba empire of Oyo A loose confederation of Yoruba kingdoms in West Africa. By the early 19th century the Yoruba empire of Oyo was beginning to disintegrate, a process accelerated by the decline of the slave trade and the rise of the FULANI...
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Aesthetics: Africa
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...aesthetic concepts of a particular group, such as the Yoruba peoples of Nigeria, to demonstrate the specificity...discourse. The most profound knowledge concerns the Yoruba peoples of Nigeria. Yoruba philosophy reveals how and why their varied arts...
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Nigeria
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures
...population, followed by the Yoruba with 21 percent, the Igbo with...indigenous languages of the south are Yoruba and Igbo. Prior to colonization...Today those who are not ethnic Yorubas or Igbos rarely speak Yoruba or Igbo. Pidgin, a mix of...
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African American Folklore and Folkways
Book article from: African-American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience
...in North America — Hausa with Yoruba, Wolof with Igbo, Akan with Bakongo...American cultural precepts: for example, Yoruba itutu , a state of personal coolness facilitating...Chillout, among others, pay honor to this Yoruba principle. Miles Davis's (1926-1991...
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