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Journal articles on the topic "Yoruba cosmoloy"

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Idegu, Emmy Unuja. "Beyond the Yoruba Cosmology: A Contestation of the Africanness of Wole Soyinka's Submission in Myth, Literature and the African World." African Performance Review 1, no. 2&3 (2007): 99–113. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5082720.

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A great part of the early works of African writers and critics dealt with the issue of re-defining the African culture which, to a certain extent, was seen not to have been properly presented or represented by foreign writers. Another level of this scholarship was the response of African scholars to the attempt to universalize western culture by the West. Nevertheless, some Africans in their response to the West made postulations and generalized submissions, using a microcosm of a single African culture to stand for the whole, and thus repeating the same universalising tendency which Western s
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Onipede, Festus Moses, and Victoria Oluwakemi Olofin. "A Social Pragmatic Study of Selected Women Sex-Related Yorùbá Proverbs Translated In English." Journal of Digital Sociohumanities 2, no. 1 (2024): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.25077/jds.2.1.1-15.2025.

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Language performs important social functions. Language serves as a means of passing along a people’s culture from one generation to the next. The Yoruba people are well renowned for having a strong oral tradition and cultural inheritance, particularly with regard to the use of proverbs. Studies have also looked into how Yoruba proverbs contribute to the contradictions in gender roles in the region. Research has also examined the ways in which gender roles in the area are contradicted by Yoruba proverbs. The majority of research on Yoruba proverbs has been on their semantic structures, categori
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Mimiko, N. Oluwafemi. "The Omoluabi Essence." African and Asian Studies 16, no. 3 (2017): 243–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341386.

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Abstract The Yoruba, predominantly of southwest Nigeria, comes with a long history of deep cultural consciousness and identity defined by the omoluabi essence – a sense of, commitment to, and pride in pristine and honorable conduct, individually and corporately. This paper interrogates the different, yet intricately linked perspectives articulated in Encyclopedia of the Yoruba on the cosmology, culture, and sociology of the Yoruba; the impact of modernity on its being; and the basis of the resilience of much of its wider cultural forms in different spatial and temporal contexts. It notes that
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Olupona, Jacob K. "The Study of Yoruba Religious Tradition in Historical Perspective." Numen 40, no. 3 (1993): 240–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852793x00176.

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AbstractThis essay presents an overview of past and recent scholarship in Yoruba religion. The earliest studies of Yoruba religious traditions were carried out by missionaries, travellers and explorers who were concerned with writing about the so called "pagan" practices and "animist" beliefs of the African peoples. In the first quarter of the 20th century professional ethnologists committed to documenting the Yoruba religion and culture were, among other things, concerned with theories about cosmology, belief-systems, and organizations of Orisà cults. Indigenous authors, especially the Revere
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Obafemi, Dr Jegede. "Taboos and Medicine in Yoruba Medicine: The Unexplored Aspects of Bioethics." International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science VIII, no. I (2024): 850–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.47772/ijriss.2024.801064.

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Taboo and bioethics constitute two major fundamental elements of the practice of traditional Yoruba medicine (TYM) that are intricately linked yet largely unexplored. However, their importance can be truly exemplified in the sustenance and maintenance of the ontological harmony between man and its environment, which in an apt sense is basic to averting unforeseen dangers to human life. This paper is therefore an attempt to bring to limelight, the indispensable aspect of taboos especially in relation to the study of bioethics in traditional Yoruba Medicine. It vehemently argues that taboo and i
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Capo Chichi, Sandro. "On the Etymology of the Yoruba Theonym Shango." Yoruba Studies Review 10, no. 1 (2025): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.32473/ysr.10.1.139147.

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This paper revisits the contested origins of Shango, a prominent Yoruba deity associated with thunder, lightning, and kingship. While Yoruba tradition often portrays Shango as an early king of Oyo who was deified, such accounts present inconsistencies. By examining linguistic evidence, the author proposes that the name Shango derives from the Gbari term ɛtswaʃɛ̰gʷo (ruler of the sky) and entered Old Oyo Yoruba via Nupe. In Gbari cosmology, ɛtswaʃɛ̰gʷo denotes a sky god, while in Nupe the borrowed form etsu ʃjə̰gʷo was reinterpreted as “King ʃjə̰go,” thereby blending notions of rulership with d
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Aremu, Moses A. "Practs of Deliberate Conceptual Mappings in Ahmed Yerima’s Abobaku." European Journal of English Language and Literature Studies 11, no. 2 (2023): 24–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.37745/ejells.2013/vol11n22440.

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Ahmed Yerima’s Abobaku is a drama that explains Yoruba cosmological belief in the concept of a scape-goat who dies to accompany Alaafin and other Yoruba Kings to the ancestral world.Despite its significance to Yoruba cosmology, Yerima’s Abobaku has not been given a full-blown pragmatic study. This paper therefore attempts to fill this existing gap by examining the practs of metaphor in it. Modified model of Mey’s (2001) pragmeme and Steen’s(2008) deliberate metaphor theory were used as the theoretical base of this study. The findings revealed that there are deliberate conceptual mappings of a
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Obafemi, Jegede. "Taboos and Medicine in Yoruba Medicine: The Unexplored Aspects of Bioethics." Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 15, no. 2 (2024): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.36941/mjss-2024-0012.

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Taboo and bioethics constitute two major fundamental elements of the practice of traditional Yoruba medicine (TYM) that are intricately linked yet largely unexplored. However, their importance can be truly exemplified in the sustenance and maintenance of the ontological harmony between man and its environment, which in an apt sense is basic to averting unforeseen dangers to human life. This paper is therefore an attempt to bring to limelight, the indispensable aspect of taboos especially in relation to the study of bioethics in traditional Yoruba Medicine. It vehemently argues that taboo and i
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H. Fola, Kazeem, and Abiola Kalejaiye Oluwakemi. "Archetypes and functionality: examples of selected motifs in Yoruba folktales." Kampala International University Interdisciplinary Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 5, no. 2 (2024): 44–50. https://doi.org/10.59568/kijhus-2024-5-2-04.

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This paper focuses on the theory of archetype in an attempt to investigate both the breath as well as the depth of Yoruba philosophy. This is meant to, apart from locating a universal framework around which the Yoruba mind works, also validate the claim that the ‘non-tangible’ thought of man could be transformed, as it were, to assume a material form. When this is done, it would erect lasting structures in the form of motifs in the human mind. Indeed, one of the sundry manifestations of the exercise of the imagination among Yoruba people is the folktale. It involves a pot-pourri of forms as so
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Adepoju, Oluwatoyin Vincent. "Epistemic Roots, Universal Routes and Ontological Roofs of African “Ritual Archives”: Disciplinary Formations in African Thought." Yoruba Studies Review 3, no. 1 (2021): 1–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/ysr.v3i1.129934.

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One may compose an essay on another essay, and possibly an even longer one than the essay being studied, long as that one is, when one is confronted with one of those things one has to say something about after encountering them. “Ritual Archives”, the climatic conclusion of the account in The Toyin Falola Reader ( Austin: Pan African University, 2018), of the efforts of Africa and its Americas Diaspora to achieve political, economic, intellectual and cultural individuality, is a deeply intriguing, ideationally, structurally and stylistically powerful and inspiring work, rich with ideas and ar
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Yoruba cosmoloy"

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Brito, Robson Gomes de. "Aproxima??o dial?gica: cosmogonias grega e iorub?" UFVJM, 2018. http://acervo.ufvjm.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/1772.

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Williams, Annette Lyn. "Our mysterious mothers| The primordial feminine power of aje in the cosmology, mythology, and historical reality of the West African Yoruba." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3643206.

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<p> Among the Yoruba <i>&agrave;j&eacute;&dotbelow;</i> is the primordial force of causation and creation. <i>&Agrave;j&eacute;&dotbelow; </i> is the power of the feminine, of female divinity and women, and <i> &agrave;j&eacute;&dotbelow;</i> is the women themselves who wield this power. Unfortunately, <i>&agrave;j&eacute;&dotbelow;</i> has been translated witch/witchcraft with attendant malevolent connotations. Though the fearsome nature of <i>&agrave;j&eacute;&dotbelow;</i> cannot be denied, <i>&agrave;j&eacute;&dotbelow;</i> is a richly nuanced term. Examination of Yoruba sacred text, <i
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Books on the topic "Yoruba cosmoloy"

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O'Mos, Ikupasa. Aspects of Yoruba cosmology in Tutuola's novels. Centre de recherches pédagogiques, 1990.

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Àjàyí, Yekeen Ajíbádé. Yorùbá cosmology and aesthetics: The cultural confluence of divination, incantation and drum-talking. Library and Publications Committee, University of Ì̀lo̧rin, 2009.

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Yorùbá names, cosmology, worldviews and dramatic exploration. International Institute of Theatre (ITI) in conjunction with DorcAmos Tops Publishers, 2015.

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Washington, Teresa N. The Architects of Existence: Aje in Yoruba Cosmology, Ontology, and Orature. Oya's Tornado, 2014.

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Adefarakan, Temitope E. Souls of Yoruba Folk: Race, Religion and the Politics of Indigenous Spirituality in the African Diaspora. Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter, 2015.

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Souls of Yoruba Folk: Indigeneity, Race, and Critical Spiritual Literacy in the African Diaspora. Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter, 2014.

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Souls of Yoruba Folk: Race, Religion and the Politics of Indigenous Spirituality in the African Diaspora. Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter, 2015.

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Souls of Yoruba Folk: Indigeneity, Race, and Critical Spiritual Literacy in the African Diaspora. Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter, 2014.

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Souls of Yoruba Folk: Indigeneity, Race, and Critical Spiritual Literacy in the African Diaspora. Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter, 2014.

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Welt und Wirkungsprinzip. Werner Landgraf, 1997.

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Book chapters on the topic "Yoruba cosmoloy"

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Breitinger, Habil Eckhard. "Tutuola and His Vision of Yoruba Cosmology." In Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy. Springer Netherlands, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2068-5_377.

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Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónké. "(Re)constituting the Cosmology and Sociocultural Institutions of Òyó-Yorùbá." In African Gender Studies A Reader. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09009-6_6.

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Conference papers on the topic "Yoruba cosmoloy"

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Arantes, Priscila, and Cynthia Nunes. "Into the decolonial encruzilhada: the Afrofuturistic collages of Luiz Gustavo Nostalgia as the artistic materialization of cruzo." In LINK 2021. Tuwhera Open Access, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/link2021.v2i1.88.

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The task of reviewing the silences present in hegemonic histories emerges at the beginning of the 20th century, seeking to provide a more amplified way of understanding the history of peoples and nations subjected to colonial subjugation. Rufino (2019) considers that this space of decolonization presents itself under the name of “encruzilhada” (crossroads) and understands the potentialities of the orixá Exu, of Yoruba spirituality: the orixá of communication, of the paths and the guardian of axé (vital energy). Exu disarray what exist to reconstruct— therefore, since the encruzilhada is Exu’s
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