The Yoruba: A New History (paperback)

The Yoruba: A New History (paperback)The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two thousand year journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small corner of the Niger Benue Confluence in present day Nigeria to becoming one of the most populous cultural groups on the African continent. Weaving together archaeology with linguistics, environmental science with oral traditions, and material culture with mythology, Ogundiran examines the local, regional,

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