Description:
In Global Yorùbá, renowned scholar Toyin Falola covers the history, people, traditions, environment, religion, spirituality, cosmology, culture, and philosophy of one of Africa's largest cultural groups, the Yorùbá, all while considering the people's relationship with their immediate and distant neighbors.
Falola examines how the Yorùbán people have adapted to their environment and tapped it to (re)invent their civilization, shape their culture and traditions, and inform their socioeconomic relations with their neighbors. These interactions have guided the Yorùbá philosophy that developed over time, expressing their conviction regarding society's evolution and the place that humans occupy within it. This web of knowledge can present a more coherent account than any other text yet produced regarding Yorùbá civilization.
This volume demonstrates how global dynamics have been adopted in the creation of a Yorùbá community across different times and spaces.
Review Quotes:
"Toyin Falola's book Global Yoruba: Regional and Diasporic Networks, is a landmark in Yoruba Studies, and almost certainly going to become a permanent point of reference. It is an epic book in its breadth in exploring the natal, larger African and diasporic development of Yoruba history and culture, emphasizing the growth of Yoruba cosmology as a unifying force across both its native, larger African and trans-Atlantic developments."--Michael O. Afolayan, Toyin Falola Network