The Yoruba

The Yoruba
Author: Akinwumi Ogundiran
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253051509

The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small corner of the Niger-Benue Confluence in present-day Nigeria to becoming one of the most populous cultural groups on the African continent. Weaving together archaeology with linguistics, environmental science with oral traditions, and material culture with mythology, Ogundiran examines the local, regional, and even global dimensions of Yoruba history. The Yoruba: A New History offers an intriguing cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and social history from ca. 300 BC to 1840. It accounts for the events, peoples, and practices, as well as the theories of knowledge, ways of being, and social valuations that shaped the Yoruba experience at different junctures of time. The result is a new framework for understanding the Yoruba past and present.

Romanticism and Slave Narratives

Romanticism and Slave Narratives
Author: Helen Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2000-04-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521662346

The first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to writings of the African diaspora.

A Merciless Place

A Merciless Place
Author: Emma Christopher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2011-08-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199695938

The disastrous history of the British transportation of convicts to West Africa after the loss of the North American colonies, and before the opening of Australia as a new destination for Britan's criminal classes

Warfare & Diplomacy in Pre-colonial West Africa

Warfare & Diplomacy in Pre-colonial West Africa
Author: Robert Sydney Smith
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780299123345

This new edition of the well-known innovative study of the relations of the peoples of West Africa in the precolonial period covers a period of some four or five hundred years, up to the last decades of the nineteenth century. Smith takes account of outside influences but focuses primarily on what happened between African states before the partition of the area and the establishment of colonies.