EXOTIC YORUBA NAMES & THEIR MEANINGS #2 is a monograph specially created to celebrate one of the most magical aspects of Yoruba culture - uncommon Yoruba names. Featuring an assorted collection of Yoruba names and their meanings, this second volume of the series is a must have for every African In Diaspora aiming to retain an African heritage of old, every classic reader and cultural enthusiast.
EXOTIC YORUBA NAMES & THEIR MEANINGS is a monograph specially created to celebrate one of the most magical aspects of Yoruba culture. Featuring an assorted collection of Yoruba names and their meanings, this book of African heritage is a must have for every classic reader and cultural enthusiast.
CAPITAL CITIES OF AFRICA, for the first time, compiles and celebrates the 51 beautiful capital cities of Africa in a language as exotic as the subject matter of discourse. Exploring what connects the capital cities together in terms of history, culture, people, currency, weather and more; this book is the definitive tourist companion and a heritage of pride for Africans worldwide.
44 LEAVES commemorates President Obama’s years in the White House with 44 illuminating events of his administration spotlighted and celebrated for posterity's knowledge and appreciation. Written by Wale Sasamura Owoeye, the Negritudian author of SIXTY-SIX SONGS.
EJIRE (MYTHICAL TWINS) is a monograph about the phenomenon of twins and their deification as cognized and practiced in Yoruba culture. The book in concise headings explore the spiritual, artistic and modernist aspects of the Ibeji tradition, highlighting its peculiarities and the special place twins occupy in the scheme of traditional society. Featured with illustration, the book is written by foremost Neo Negritudian, Wale Sasamura Owoeye.
TUPAC AMARU SHAKUR & FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI – REVOLUTIONARIES OR MARTYRS is a monograph of honour raised in the memory of late Muhiyideen D’Baha Moye of Black Lives Matter movement. The book compares and contrast the two legendary figures of blackism, Tupac and Fela, drawing inferences and interconnections about the activism of the two artists whose life and art epitomized the struggle of the black race for true freedom. The book is written by the foremost Neo-Negritudian, Wale Sasamura Owoeye, author of Sixty-Six Songs
BEDTIME STORIES FROM AFRICAN FOLKLORES contains 10 colourful stories culled from African folklores to nudge the little ones to sleep. Illustrated and witty, you will juts love it!
The Shattered Gourd uses the lens of visual art to examine connections between the United States and the Yoruba region of western Nigeria. In Yoruba legend, the sacred Calabash of Being contained the Water of Life; when the gourd was shattered, its fragments were scattered over the ground, death invaded the world, and imperfection crept into human affairs. In more modern times, the shattered gourd has symbolized the warfare and enslavement that culminated in the black diasporas. The "re-membering" of the gourd is represented by the survival of people of African origin all over the Americas, and, in this volume, by their rediscovery of African art forms on the diaspora soil of the United States. Twentieth-century African American artists employing Yoruba images in their work have gone from protest art to the exploration and celebration of the self and the community. But because the social, economic, and political context of African art forms differs markedly from that of American culture, critical contradictions between form and meaning often appear in African American works that use African forms. In this book -- the first to treat Yoruba forms while transcending the conventional emphasis on them as folk art, focusing instead on the high art tradition -- Moyo Okediji uses nearly four dozen works to illustrate a broad thematic treatment combined with a detailed approach to individual African and African American artists. Incorporating works by such artists as Meta Warrick Fuller, Hale Woodruff, Aaron Douglas, Elizabeth Catlett, Ademola Olugebefola, Paul Keene, Jeff Donaldson, Howardena Pindell, Muneer Bahauddeen, Michelle Turner, Michael Harris, Winnie Owens-Hart, and John Biggers, the author invites the reader to envision what he describes as "the immense possibilities of the future, as the twenty-first century embraces the twentieth in a primal dance of the diasporas," a future that heralds the advent of the global as a distinct movement in art, beyond postmodernism.
This book is a powerful exploration of the role of women in the evolution of African thinking and narratives on development, from the precolonial period right through to the modern day. Whilst the book identifies women’s oppression and marginalization as significant challenges to contemporary Africa’s advancement, it also explores how new written narratives draw on traditional African knowledge systems to bring deep-rooted and sometimes radical approaches to progress. The book asserts that Africans must tell their own stories, expressed through the complex meanings and nuances of African languages and often conveyed through oral traditions and storytelling, in which women play an important role. The book’s close examination of language and meaning in the African narrative tradition advances the illumination and elevation of African storytelling as part of a viable and valid knowledge base in its own right, rather than as an extension of European paradigms and methods. Anthonia C. Kalu's new edition of this important book, fully revised throughout, will also include fresh analysis of the role of digital media, education, and religion in African narratives. At a time when the prominence and participation of African women in development and sociopolitical debates is growing, this book's exploration of their lived experiences and narrative contribution will be of interest to students of African literature, gender studies, development, history, and sociology.
