Ayoola Salami was born into the union of Chief and Mrs. Anthony Alarape Salami of Jagun Ojoagabi House, in Oyo, Oyo state, Nigeria. He is not only a renowned author on the Yoruba culture and Ifa/Orisa traditions, he is also...
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...
Surveys previous works on Yoruba religion and outlines a typology of beliefs, as well as offers an interpretation of religious rites as elements of sacrificial system. This serious study gives valuable material for other approaches to religion-comparative, scientific and theological...
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....