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In Global Yorbá, renowned scholar Toyin Falola covers the history, people, traditions, environment, religion, spirituality, cosmology, culture, and philosophy of one of Africa's largest cultural groups, the Yorbá, all while considering the people's relationship with their immediate and distant neighbors.
Falola examines how the Yorbán people have adapted to their environment and tapped it to (re)invent their civilization, shape their culture and traditions, and inform their socioeconomic relations with their neighbors. These interactions have guided the Yorbá philosophy that developed over time, expressing their conviction regarding society's evolution and the place that humans occupy within it. This web of knowledge can present a more coherent account than any other text yet produced regarding Yorbá civilization.
This volume demonstrates how global dynamics have been adopted in the creation of a Yorbá community across different times and spaces.
Falola examines how the Yorbán people have adapted to their environment and tapped it to (re)invent their civilization, shape their culture and traditions, and inform their socioeconomic relations with their neighbors. These interactions have guided the Yorbá philosophy that developed over time, expressing their conviction regarding society's evolution and the place that humans occupy within it. This web of knowledge can present a more coherent account than any other text yet produced regarding Yorbá civilization.
This volume demonstrates how global dynamics have been adopted in the creation of a Yorbá community across different times and spaces.
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"Toyin Falola's book Global Yoruba: Regional and Diasporic Networks, is a landmark in Yoruba Studies, and almost certainly going to become a permanent point of reference. It is an epic book in its breadth in exploring the natal, larger African and diasporic development of Yoruba history and culture, emphasizing the growth of Yoruba cosmology as a unifying force across both its native, larger Afric
Michael O. Afolayan
"Falola pours his decades of exploration of Yoruba life into this book and soars even beyond his earlier engagements with the subject. He does this in readily accessible prose, narratively sweet yet bristling with ideas, richly illustrated with images likely unavailable anywhere else, eloquent examples of classical Yoruba art and new art addressing Yoruba realities."
Oluwatoyin Adepoju