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Otero, Solimar. "Ik� and Cuban Nationhood: Yoruba Mythology in the FilmGuantanamera." Africa Today 46, no. 2 (1999): 116–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/aft.1999.46.2.116.

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Otero, Solimar. "Iku and Cuban Nationhood: Yoruba Mythology in the Film Guantanamera." Africa Today 46, no. 2 (1999): 117–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/at.1999.0010.

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Hansen, Robin Wildt. "Cosmogony through division in Romanian and world mythology." Studii de istorie a filosofiei românești 2023, no. 19 (2023): 171–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.59277/sifr.202319.11.

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In this paper, an interpretation is attempted of the Romanian myth, “Legenda despre zidirea lumii”. Parallels are drawn with tales such as Genesis, the Babylonian narrative of Marduk constructing the world from Tiamat, and the Norse story of Odin shaping the world from Ymir. In the Romanian myth, Satan’s prideful omission to enunciate God’s blessing as he collects sand results in the formation of varied terrains. His attempt to harm God inadvertently spreads divine blessings all over the world. Similarly, in Norse and Yoruba myths, stifling barriers and attempts at desecration lead to the para

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Bondarenko, Dmitri M. "Advent of the Second (Oba) Dynasty: Another Assessment of a Benin History Key Point." History in Africa 30 (2003): 63–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361541300003144.

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There is no other theme in precolonial Benin Kingdom studies around which so many lances have been broken as that of consolidation of the present-day Second (Oba) dynasty and the person of its founder Oranmiyan (Oranyan in Yoruba). The main reason for this is the existence of considerable disagreements between numerous Bini and Yoruba versions of the oral historical tradition. Besides this, the story of Oranmiyan is one of the Bini and Yoruba oral history pages most tightly connected with mythology. This fact becomes especially important if one takes into account that the oral tradition is no

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Khanal, Nagarjun. "Uncompromising Affirmation of Culture: Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman." Tribhuvan University Journal 27, no. 1-2 (2010): 91–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/tuj.v27i1-2.26391.

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Whole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman is the convergence of two issues: the first focuses on the Yoruba priest Elesin, who represents the embodiment of the mythology and the history of the people; the second concentrates on the “sterile, existential wasteland” (Ralph-Bowman, 1983) of the white colonialists. The two issues come into conflict in the sacrifice of Elesin’s European-educated son, Olunde, whose death represents a significant and uncom promising affirmation of Yoruba cultural tradition. The sacrifice ofolunde, though appears as metaphysical, is entirely secular and practical.

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Witte, Hans. "La Quête Du Sens Dans Le Symbolisme Yoruba: Le Cas D'Erinle." Numen 38, no. 1 (1991): 59–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852791x00042.

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AbstractThe article shows that in Yoruba mythology Erinle is a male hunter who is named after (or associated with) an elephant and who-for diverse reasons-is finally transformed into a water-spirit. In his cult Erinle is mainly venerated as a river-god who, like the river goddesses Qsun and Yemoya, blesses his followers with children. In the iconography of his cult, however, the material symbols of a Yoruba water-spirit (terra-cotta pots with water and pebbles from the river: fans) are mixed with those that refer to the hunter and the symbol-complex of the god of iron and of the wilderness (ir

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James, Sunday. "©2023 by the Authors. This Article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/." European Journal of Philosophy, Culture and Religion 7, no. 1 (2023): 79–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.47672/ejpcr.1572.

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Many secret signs and symbols area associated with the Yoruba as we have it amongst many tribes in Nigeria. Some of these signs and symbols have deep meanings and have connotations amongst the tribe. They form the everyday language of the people and a thorough understanding of them is key in their relationship with one another as a people. The objective of this study is to express the cultural connotations of selected symbols in relation to the Yoruba people of Nigeria. The study hinges on the theories of Mimesis, Structural Formalism and Semiotics. This was validated through ethnographic stud

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David, Janice Sandra, and V. Bhuvaneswari. "Interconnection of Nature and Yoruba Traditions in Okri’s Trilogies." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 12, no. 6 (2022): 1220–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1206.23.

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Africa's history and ecology were shaped by colonization. The European invasion of eastern nations had a significant influence on the environment. The technical advancements due to colonization have been both beneficial and detrimental to the colonized countries. The harmful consequences have prompted several researchers and African writers to conduct a critical examination of the interaction between humans and their environment in terms of race, culture, economy, power, and belonging. Ben Okri is an internationally acclaimed poet, writer, artist, and public speaker. In his trilogies The Famis

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Aboelazm, Ingy. "Africanizing Greek Mythology: Femi Osofisan’s Retelling of Euripides’the Trojan Women." European Journal of Language and Literature 4, no. 1 (2016): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejls.v4i1.p87-103.

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Nigerian writer Femi Osofisan’s new version of Euripides' The Trojan Women, is an African retelling of the Greek tragedy. In Women of Owu (2004), Osofisan relocates the action of Euripides' classical drama outside the walls of the defeated Kingdom of Owu in nineteenth century Yorubaland, what is now known as Nigeria. In a “Note on the Play’s Genesis”, Osofisan refers to the correspondences between the stories of Owu and Troy. He explains that Women of Owu deals with the Owu War, which started when the allied forces of the southern Yoruba kingdoms Ijebu and Ife, together with recruited mercenar

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Bellei, Francesca. "The Nose at the Crossroads: An Intersectional Reading of the Pseudo-Vergilian Moretum." TAPA 154, no. 1 (2024): 213–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/apa.2024.a925502.

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summary: This article provides a new interpretation of the anonymous poem Moretum as erotic satire. Mindful of Shelley Haley's invitation to read it through a Black feminist lens, this article turns to recent Black feminist scholarship on pornography to argue that the presence of sex does not automatically negate the agency of Scybale, the African woman described in the poem as Simulus's custos . Further, I review the evidence for Simulus's own identity. Through a combination of Audre Lorde's Black queer lens and Paul Preciado's trans scholarship on the dildo, I further argue that by imagining

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Panda, Asit. "Transcending Boundaries: Wole Soyinka’s Fusion of African and Western Dramatic Traditions in A Dance of the Forests." International Journal of English Language, Education and Literature Studies (IJEEL) 3, no. 1 (2024): 37–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijeel.3.1.5.

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The objective of this research article is to investigate the innovative fusion of Western and indigenous performance traditions that Wole Soyinka employs in his celebrated tragedy, A Dance of the Forests. This study identifies specific indigenous and European forms and performance idioms that contribute to Soyinka's tragedy through an in-depth analysis of the play's structure, themes, and performance techniques. This article emphasises Soyinka's incorporation of Western theatrical devices and traditions, as well as Yoruba mythology and traditional performance elements such as percussion, dance

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Tella, Abiola Opemipo. "Traditional Rain Control Practice Through Indigenous Knowledge System and Technology Among Ikire People of Osun State, Southwest Nigeria." International Journal of Social Science Research and Review 5, no. 9 (2022): 155–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.47814/ijssrr.v5i9.451.

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This paper aims to trace the history of rain prevention, and examine for documentation, the rituals involved. Traditional rain control in this context is considered as a process involving the making and preventing of rain to modify atmospheric condition of a place using Indigenous Knowledge and Technology (IKT). Rain control ritual is an age-long indigenous knowledge and technology aimed at influencing weather condition. As part of a broadened African society, the art of preventing rainfall is a part of the heritage resources practised by the people of Ikire in Osun State. This ritualistic art

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Oyewo, Adewale Christopher, and Oluwafunminiyi Wasiu Raheem. "Twins Seven-Seven: The Glocal Framing of an International Artist in Memorial Pages." International Journal of Current Research in the Humanities 27, no. 1 (2024): 259–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ijcrh.v27i1.17.

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On 16 June 2011, the foremost Nigerian visual artist, Taiwo Osuntoki, popularly referred to as Twins Seven-Seven, passed away. His passing, as is common with personalities of that nature, elicited some interesting memorials across the world. Family members, close friends, admirers, art collectors and colleagues in the art community in Nigeria and across the globe flooded the art space with glowing tributes, lauding an iconic figure whose works were known to reflect the embodiment of Yoruba folklore, mythology, spiritual, ghostly and invisible worlds. This article draws on a descriptive analysi

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Joseph, Sunu Rose, and Shashikantha Koudur. "Decolonial Myths and Demi-gods of the Tropics: The More-than-Human Worlds of Manasa and Olokun." eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics 22, no. 1 (2023): 155–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/etropic.22.1.2023.3980.

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In response to the current age of the Anthropocene, Posthumanist studies explore multispecies' entanglements and encounters in order to move away from the colonial binaries that separate humans from the environment. Adding to these studies, this paper explores the role of mythology in decolonising the Westerncentric strategies of narration. Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island and Rita Indiana’s Tentacle, envision the relationship of the human with other species against the deepening climate crisis, bringing to the fore the often-discounted discourses of cultural myths. In Gun Island, Manasa, the quintes

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Adeleke, Duro A. "Lessons from Yorùbá Mythology." Journal of Asian and African Studies 39, no. 3 (2004): 179–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909604049971.

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Adeniyi, Emmanuel. "Dispersion of the Yorùbá to the Americas: A Fatalist Hermeneutics of Orí in the Yorùbá Cosmos – Reading from Tutuoba: Salem’s Black Shango Slave Queen." Yoruba Studies Review 5, no. 1.2 (2021): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/ysr.v5i1.2.130081.

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Studies in African Diaspora ofen privilege the transatlantic slavery, Columbus’ discovery of the New World, and African cultural codes in the Americas. To expand the scope of the studies, this article examines the metaphysical and ontological questions on the enslavement of the Yorùbá – an African ethno-nation whose members were condemned to slavery and servitude in the Americas during the inglorious transatlantic slave trade. I used metaphysical fatalism as a theoretical model to interrogate prognostications about dispersion of the Yorùbá from their matrix as expressed in their mythology. Bei

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AFEJUKU, TONY E., and E. B. ADELEKE. "Myths, Legends, and Contemporary Nigerian Theatre." Matatu 47, no. 1 (2016): 97–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-90000397.

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Femi Osofisan belongs to the new breed of writers, inadequately referred to as ‘second generation’. An accomplished writer whose works include plays, poems, essays and novels, Osofisan is widely regarded as the most significant playwright in Africa after Soyinka. As a committed playwright, Osofisan focuses on the reappraisal of his immediate society and the challenges of living in this society. He calls attention to all that is undesirable in the politics, economy, and religion of contemporary Nigeria and asks for a change of attitude which, hopefully, will bring sanity to the country. One of

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Afejuku, Tony E., and E. B. Adeleke. "Myths, Legends, and Contemporary Nigerian Theatre." Matatu 49, no. 1 (2017): 54–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04901004.

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Femi Osofisan belongs to the new breed of writers, inadequately referred to as the ‘second generation of writers’. An accomplished writer whose works include plays, poems, essays, and novels, Osofisan is widely regarded as the most significant playwright in Africa after Soyinka. As a committed playwright, Osofisan focuses on the reappraisal of his immediate society and the challenges of living in this society. He calls attention to all that is undesirable in the politics, economy, and religion of contemporary Nigeria and asks for a change of attitude which, hopefully, will bring sanity to the

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Saylan, Özlem. "Luis Valdez’in Seçilmiş Oyunlarında Chicano Kültürü Yansımaları." Göç Dergisi 7, no. 1 (2020): 55–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/gd.v7i1.670.

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Luis Valdez, tarım işçilerinden oluşturduğu tiyatrosunun temellerini Chicano kültürünü referans alan üç sacayağı üzerine kurmuştur: daha çok politik içerik taşıyan doğaçlama kısa oyun anlamına gelen actos, Maya ve Aztek mitoloji ve efsanelerini yansıtan mitos ve de oyuna müzik, şarkı ve dans yorumu getiren corridos. Bir Chicano kimliği yaratıp, Chicanoların öz kültürleri ile bugünkü yaşamlarını içselleştirebilmeleri Valdez’in oyunlarında yer alan temaların en çok öne çıkanlarından birisidir. Bu makalede, Valdez’in, Zoot Suit, Bandido! ve I Don’t Have to Show You No Stinking Badges! isimli seçi

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S. Osadola, O., O. M. Olofinsao, and I. O. Ajisafe. "FACT OR MYTHOLOGY - YORUBA AND BENIN HISTORICAL CORRELATION." International Journal of Research Publications 87, no. 1 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.47119/ijrp1008711020212404.

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"Yoruba Cosmology and Mythology in Wole Soyinka’s The Road." International Journal of African and Asian Studies, October 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7176/jaas/76-08.

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Heinz, Sarah. "Revision as Relation: Adapting Parable in Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen." Adaptation, December 21, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apaa039.

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Abstract This essay explores the connection between adaptation and parable in Chigozie Obioma’s debut novel The Fishermen (2015). Obioma’s adaptation of parable revises this narrative form as radically relational. This revision of parable is tied to an equally relational understanding of adaptive processes. Using parable as the frame for its complex mixture of Igbo and Yoruba mythology, Biblical stories, and Greek and Roman myth, among others, enables the novel to reinterpret all these sources in the context of postcolonial Nigeria. This process thereby challenges the belief that we can dispel

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BURLEY, MIKEL. "African religions, mythic narratives, and conceptual enrichment in the philosophy of religion." Religious Studies, March 11, 2020, 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034412520000086.

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Abstract Myths, or sacred narratives, have been underexplored in mainstream philosophy of religion, which has also had little to say about African indigenous religions. These lacunae impoverish the philosophy of religion by diminishing its coverage both of the range of human religious possibilities and of the diverse modes through which religious ideas and world-views are conveyed. With particular attention to Yorùbá religion, this article promotes and exemplifies a pluralistic narrative approach that draws upon mythology to facilitate philosophical reflection upon a wider array of religious t

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