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Home > Books > Abimbola, Wande. Ifa Will Mend Our Broken World
Abimbola, Wande. Ifa Will Mend Our Broken World
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Item Number: 0965973908
Publisher: AIM Books
ISBN: 978-0965973908
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Product Description
This book is a series of interviews on various aspects of Yoruba life, religion and culture in West Africa and the Americas. It focuses on contemporary and historic Yoruba culture in Brazil, Cuba and the United States of America. Interviews conducted by Dr. Ivor Miller.
About the Author
Professor Wande Abimbola is Awise Awo Agbaye (World Spokesperson for Ifa). He has served as the Special Adviser to the President of Nigeria on Cultural Affairs and Traditional Matters; Vice Chancellor (President) of the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), and Majority Leader of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He was installed as Awise in 1981 by the Ooni of Ife on the recommendation of a conclave of Babalawos of Yorubaland in West Africa.
For further information on Wande Abimbola, click on the following links:
· www.wandeabimbola.com
Review
“This book is a timely, most probably predestined, intervention to clear puzzles, enlighten the mind and advance our knowledge of Yoruba religion and culture. Professor Wande Abimbola presents the basic foundations of Yoruba Religion in the most accessible form, with characteristic lucidity and an uncommon openness, This isan essential reading for al students and practitioners of Yoruba culture.” Olusegun Gbadegesin, Professor of Philosophy, Howard University, Washington DC, USA. |
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Price: $40.00 eBook. Format: pdf. Instant download
This pdf bestseller contains Yoruba and English translations of two poems from each of the 256 Odu of the Sacred Ifa Literary Corpus. It is an essential reference guide for practitioners, scholars and students of Ifa and Orisa Theology.
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