The chief purposes of this book are three: first, to give a lucid account of the typical day-to-day activities of Ifá priests with a view to highlighting their preoccupations, personalities and perspectives as custodial of Yorùbá religion, culture and philosophy....

This book examines the Yoruba Avant Garde artists of the modern era. Ithighlights an important, but underrepresented and under-acknowledged cadre ofartistic personalities in the Yoruba cultural traditions known as, Are. Are, aretrailblazers, and cultural innovators, like their French counterparts, the...