A Listing of Some of the Available Resources on Yoruba
(Language, Culture, History, Linguistics, and so on) in the
University of Georgia Library System.[Search Categories: Su= Yoruba ; Kw=Yoruba ; To= Yoruba]
Main Author: Anderson, David A., 1930-
Other Author(s): Wilson, Kathleen Atkins,
Title: The origin of life on earth : an African creation myth /
retold by David A. Anderson/Sankofa ; illustrated by Kathleen Atkins Wilson ; designed
by Pete Traynor.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Creation--Folklore.
Yoruba (African people)--Folklore.
Folklore--Africa.
Publisher: Mt. Airy, MD. : Sights Productions, c1991.
Description: 1st ed.
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 31 cm.
Notes: Retells the Yoruba creation myth in which the deity Obatala descends from the sky to create the world.
Call Number: Folio PZ8.1 .A543 Or 1991
Main Author: Gershator, Phillis.
Other Author(s): Smith, Theresa.
Title: Zzzng! zzzng! zzzng! : a Yoruba tale / retold by Phillis
Gershator ; illustrated by Theresa Smith.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Mosquitoes--Folklore. Yoruba (African people)--Folklore. Folklore--Africa.
Mosquitoes--Folklore--Juvenile literature. Yoruba (African people)--Folklore--Juvenile literature.
Publisher: New York : Orchard Books, c1998.
Description: [32] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Notes: When Ear, Leg, and Arm refuse to marry Mosquito, she shows
them that she is not to be ignored.
Call Number: PZ8.1 .G353 Z98 1998
Author: Verger, Pierre.Title: Awon ewe osanyin. Yoruba medicinal leaves.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Plants--Folklore.
Ethnology--Africa.
Yoruba (African people)Publisher: University of Ife, Institute of African Studies, Ile-Ife 1967.
Description: 70 p. illus. 19 cm.
Notes: Yoruba and English on opposite pages.
Microfilm. microfilm reels.Call Number: DT1 .A35 r.136, no.14
Location: Main Basement Microforms
Author: Phillips, Earl Harold.
Title: The Church Missionary Society, the imperial factor, and
Yoruba politics, 1842-1873Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Church Missionary Society--Yoruba.
Yoruba (African people)Publisher: 1966.
Description: xii, 808 leaves.
Notes: Thesis--University of Southern California.
Bibliography: leaves 788-808.
Microfilm. 1 reel. 35 mm.Call Number: HT1521 .D62 r.173, no.2
Location: Main Basement Microforms
Author: Cohen, Abner.
Title: Custom & politics in urban Africa; a study of Hausa
migrants in Yoruba towns.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Hausa (African people)
Yoruba (African people)
Nigeria--Social conditions.Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press, 1969.
Description: xii, 252 p. map. 23 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 231-238.
Call Number: HN800 .N5 C6 1969
Location: Main 5th floor
Author: Farrow, Stephen Septimus.
Title: Faith, fancies, and fetich; or, Yoruba paganism; being some
account of the religious beliefs of the West African Negroes,
particularly of the Yoruba tribes of Southern Nigeria,
With a foreword by R. R. Marett.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)
Yoruba (African people)--Folklore.
Fetishism. Folklore--Nigeria.Publisher: New York, Negro Universities Press [1969]
Description: xi, 180 p. illus. 23 cm.
Notes: "Yoruba Christian lyrics" (with melodies): p. 170-173.
Reprint of the 1926 ed. Bibliography: p. 9-11.Call Number: BL2480 .Y6 F3 1969
Location: Main 6th floor
Author: Coker, G. B. A.
Title: Family property among the Yorubas
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people). Land tenure (Primitive law)-- Nigeria.
Customary law--Nigeria.Publisher: London, Sweet and Maxwell; Lagos, African Universities P., 1966.
Description: 2nd ed. xxxi, 397 p. tables. 23 cm.
Series: Law in Africa, no. 14
Notes: Bibliography: p. 389-391.
Call Number: KQ8413 .C65 1966
Location: Main 6th floor
Author: Coker, G. B. A.
Title: Family property among the Yorubas. With a foreword by
Maxime de Comarmond.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)
Land tenure (Primitive law)--Nigeria.Publisher: London, Sweet & Maxwell 1958.
Description: 314 p. 23cm.
Notes: Includes bibliography.
Call Number: HD1169 .C682F
Location: Main 5th floor
Author: Smith, Robert Sydney.
Title: Kingdoms of the Yoruba
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)
Publisher: London, Methuen, 1969.
Description: xiii, 226 p. 3 maps. 19 cm.
Series: Studies in African history, 2
Notes: "Distributed in the USA by Barnes & Nobles, Inc.
Bibliography: p. 211-217.Call Number: DT513 .S6
Location: Main 4th floor
(Temporarily Shelved at :Repository)
Author: Staewen, Christoph.
Other Author(s): Schonberg, Friderun,Title: Kulturwandel und Angstentwicklung bei den Yoruba
Westafrikas, von C. Staewen und F. Schonberg.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people). Anxiety.
Publisher: Munchen, Weltforum [1970]
Description: 434 p. 24 cm.
Series: Afrika-Studien, Nr. 50
Notes: English summary.
Bibliography: p. 425-426.Call Number: DT513 .S82
Location: Main 4th floor
Author: Awolowo, Obafemi, 1909-
Title: The message sent by Chief Obafemi Awolowo, leader of the
Action Group of Nigeria, to Western Regional Conference
of the Action Group taking place at Ibadan on Saturday 6th
July 1963.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Action Group of Nigeria.
Yoruba (African people)
Nigeria--Politics and government.Publisher: [n.p.] 1963.
Description: 7 ?.
Notes: Microfilm. microfilm reels
Call Number: DT1 .A35 r.82, no.11
Location: Main Basement Microforms
Author: Dennett, R. E. (Richard Edward), 1857-1921.
Title: Nigerian studies; or, The religious and political system
of the YorubaPrimary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)
Folklore--Nigeria.
Yoruba (African people)--Folklore.Publisher: London, Cass, 1968.
Description: 1st ed., new impression.
xv, 235 p. 9 plates (1 fold.), illus., map, ports. 23 cm.Series: Cass library of African studies. General studies, no. 48
Call Number: DT513 .D4 1968
Location: Main 4th floor
Author: Mabogunje, Akin L.
Other Author(s): Omer-Cooper, J. D. (John D.)Title: Owu in Yoruba History
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)--History.
Yoruba (African people)Publisher: [Ibadan, Nigeria] Ibadan University Press, 1971.
Description: x, 123 p. illus. 22 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number: DT513 .M3 1971
Location: Main 4th floor
Author: Lloyd, Peter Cutt.
Title: The political development of Yoruba kingdoms in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)
Publisher: London, Royal Anthropological Institute, 1971.
Description: viii, 55 p. maps. 25 cm.
Series: Royal Anthropological Institute. Occasional paper no. 31
Notes: Bibliography: p. 54-55.
Call Number: GN2 .A32 no.31
Location: Main 6th floor
Author: Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in the Western Region, Nigeria.
Other Author(s): Leighton, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1908-Title: Psychiatric disorder among the Yoruba : a report. By
Alexander H. Leighton [and others]Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Psychiatry--Research.
Mental illness--Nigeria.
Yoruba (African people)Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press [1963]
Description: xix, 413 p. illus., map, diagrs., tables. 24 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 395-403.
Call Number: RC451 .N5 C8
Location: Science 4th floor
Temporarily Shelved at :Repository
Author: Bascom, William Russell, 1912-
Title: The sociological role of the Yoruba cult-group
Primary Material: Book
Physical Description: Microform
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)
Publisher: [Menasha, Wisc.] : American Anthropological Association,
[1944]Description: 75 p.
Series: Memoir series of the American Anthropological Association; no. 63
Notes: Issued as v. 46, no. 1, pt. 2 of the American anthropologist.
Bibliography: p. 74-75. Microfiche. on microfiches.Call Number: [MFC][HRAF]GUAA
Location: Consult Reference Staff
Author: Fadipe, N. A., 1893-1944.
Other Author(s): Okediji, Francis Oluokun Ayoola, 1932-
Okediji, Oladejo Olatokunbo, 1933-Title: The sociology of the Yoruba. Edited and with an introduction By
Francis Olu. Okediji and Oladejo O. Okediji.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)
Publisher: [Ibadan] Ibadan University Press, 1970.
Description: vi, 354 p. illus., map, port. 23 cm.
Notes: A revision of the author's thesis, University of London, 1939.
Bibliography: p. 335-348.Call Number: HN800 .N5 F33 1970
Location: Main 5th floor
Author: Delano, Isaac O.
Title: The soul of Nigeria.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)
Publisher: New York : AMS Press, 1978.
Description: 251 p., [45] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes: Reprint of the 1937 ed. published by T. W. Laurie, London.
Includes index.Call Number: DT515 .G786n
Location: Main 4th floor
Author: Biobaku, Saburi O. (Saburi Oladeni)
Title: Sources of Yoruba history; edited by S. O. Biobaku.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973.
Description: xi, 268, [8] p. illus. 23 cm.
Series: Oxford studies in African affairs
Notes: Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [250]-262.Call Number: DT513 .B53
Location: Main 4th floor
Author: Parrinder, Edward Geoffrey.
Title: The story of Ketu, an ancient Yoruba Kingdom
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)
Ketou, Dahomey.Publisher: [Ibadan] Ibadan University Press, 1967.
Description: 2d [rev.] ed. edited by I.A. Akinjogbin.
vi, 106 p. fold. map. 22 cm.Notes: Bibliography: p. 103-104.
Call Number: DT513 .P3 1967
Location: Main 4th floor
Temporarily Shelved at :Repository
Other Author(s): Olusanya, G. O. (Gabriel Olakunle)
Title: Studies in Yoruba history and culture : Essays in honour
of Professor S.O. Biobaku / edited by G.O. Olusanya.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Biobaku, Saburi O. (Saburi Oladeni)
Yoruba (African people)Publisher: Ibadan, Nigeria : University Press Ltd., 1983.
Description: 196 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number: DT513 .S780 1983
Location: Main 4th floor
Author: Clarke, William H., 1829-1871.
Title: Travels and explorations in Yorubaland, 1854-1858 / by
William H. Clarke ; edited and with an introd. by J. A.
Atanda.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Clarke, William H., 1829-1871.
Yoruba (African people)
Nigeria--Description and travel.Publisher: Ibadan, Nigeria : Ibadan University Press, 1972.
Description: xxxvii, 297 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes: Includes index.
Call Number: No call number available
Location: Consult Reference Staff
Author: Lloyd, Peter Cutt.
Title: The political development of Yoruba kingdoms in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)
Publisher: London, Royal Anthropological Institute, 1971.
Description: viii, 55 p. maps. 25 cm.
Series: Royal Anthropological Institute. Occasional paper no. 31
Notes: Bibliography: p. 54-55.
Call Number: GN2 .A32 no.31
Location: Main 6th floor
Author: Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in the Western Region, Nigeria.
Other Author(s): Leighton, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1908-Title: Psychiatric disorder among the Yoruba : a report. By
Alexander H. Leighton [and others]Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Psychiatry--Research.
Mental illness--Nigeria.
Yoruba (African people)Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press [1963]
Description: xix, 413 p. illus., map, diagrs., tables. 24 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 395-403.
Call Number: RC451 .N5 C8
Location: Science 4th floor
Temporarily Shelved at :Repository
Author: Bascom, William Russell, 1912-
Title: The sociological role of the Yoruba cult-group
Primary Material: Book
Physical Description: Microform
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)
Publisher: [Menasha, Wisc.] : American Anthropological Association, [1944]
Description: 75 p.
Series: Memoir series of the American Anthropological Association ; no. 63
Notes: Issued as v. 46, no. 1, pt. 2 of the American anthropologist.
Bibliography: p. 74-75. Microfiche. on microfiches.Call Number: [MFC][HRAF]GUAA
Location: Consult Reference Staff
Author: Biobaku, Saburi O. (Saburi Oladeni)
Title: Sources of Yoruba history; edited by S. O. Biobaku.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973.
Description: xi, 268, [8] p. illus. 23 cm.
Series: Oxford studies in African affairs
Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. [250]-262.
Call Number: DT513 .B53
Location: Main 4th floor
Author: Euba, Femi.
Title: Archetypes, imprecators, and victims of fate : origins an
developments of satire in Black drama.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Drama--Black authors--History and criticism.
American drama--Afro-American authors--History and criticism.
Satire--History and criticism. Esu (Legendary character)
Archetypes in literature.
Fate and fatalism in literature.
Yoruba (African people)--Folklore.
Publisher: New York : Greenwood Press, 1989.
Description: xiv, 199 p. ; 24 cm.
Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 126
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-190).
Call Number: PN1590 .B53 E93 1989
Location: Main 3rd floor
Author: Sekoni, Ropo.
Title: Folk poetics : a sociosemiotic study of Yoruba trickster tales
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)--Folklore.
Tricksters--Nigeria--History and criticism.
Semiotics and folk literature--Nigeria.Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.
Description: xi, 141 p. ; 22 cm.
Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 162
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-133) and index.
Call Number: GR351.32 .Y56 S45 1994
Location: Main 6th floor
Author: Fuja, Abayomi, 1900-
Title: Fourteen hundred cowries, and other African tales. With an introd. by Anne Pellowski. Illustrated by Ademola Olugebefola.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)--Folklore.
Tales--Nigeria.Publisher: New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. [1971]
Description: [1st American ed.] 256 p. illus. 22 cm.
Call Number: GR360 .Y6 F8 1971
Location: Main 6th floor
Author: Ajuwon, Bade.
Title: Funeral dirges of Yoruba hunters.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba poetry--History and criticism.
Dirges--History and criticism.
Yoruba poetry.
Yoruba poetry--Translations into English.
English poetry--Translations from Yoruba.
Dirges
Yoruba (African people)--Funeral customs and rites.
Hunters--Nigeria--Folklore.
Yoruba (African people)--Folklore.
Yoruba (African people)--Social life and customs.Publisher: New York : NOK Publishers International, c1982.
Description: x, 134 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes: English and Yoruba.
Bibliography: p. 129-131.Call Number: PL8823.5 .A38 1982
Location: Main 3rd floor
Author: Dennett, R. E. (Richard Edward), 1857-1921.
Title: Nigerian studies; or, The religious and political system
of the Yoruba.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)
Folklore--Nigeria.
Yoruba (African people)--Folklore.Publisher: London, Cass, 1968.
Description: 1st ed., new impression.
xv, 235 p. 9 plates (1 fold.), illus., map, ports. 23 cm.Series: Cass library of African studies. General studies, no. 48
Call Number: DT513 .D4 1968
Location: Main 4th floor
Author: Courlander, Harold, 1908-
Title: Tales of Yoruba gods and heroes. Decorations by Larry Lurin.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Mythology, Yoruba.
Yoruba (African people)--Folklore.
Tales--Nigeria.Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers [1973]
Description: vii, 243 p. illus. 24 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 241-243.
Call Number: GR360 .Y6 C68 1973
Location: Main 6th floor
Author: Ogumefu, M. I.
Title: Yoruba legends.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)--Folklore.
Legends--Nigeria.
Tales--Nigeria.Publisher: New York : AMS Press, [1984]
Description: vi, 87 p. ; 19 cm.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: London : Sheldon Press, 1929.
Call Number: GR351.32 .Y56 O34 1984
Location: Main 6th floor
Author: Owomoyela, Oyekan.
Title: Yoruba trickster tales.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)--Folklore.
Tales--Nigeria.
Turtles--Folklore.Tricksters--Nigeria.
Publisher: Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c1997.
Description: xviii, 218 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number: GR351.32 .Y56 O86 1997
Location: Main 6th floor
Author: Belasco, Bernard I.
Title: The entrepreneur as culture hero : preadaptations in
Nigerian economic development.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)--Economic conditions.
Entrepreneurship--Case studies. Nigeria--
Commerce--Case studies.Publisher: New York : Praeger, 1980.
Description: xiii, 239 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes: "A J. F. Bergin Publishers book."
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 207-219.Call Number: DT513 .B4
Location: Main 4th floor
Author: Berry, Sara.
Title: Fathers work for their sons : accumulation, mobility, and
class formation in an extended Yoruba community.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)--Economic conditions.
Yoruba (African people)--Social conditions.
Cocoa trade--Nigeria.Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1984.
Description: x, 225 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes: Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 207-219.
Call Number: DT515.45 .Y67 B47 1984
Location: Main 4th floor
Author: Spiro, Heather M.
Other Author(s): Population Council.Title: The Ilora farm settlement in Nigeria.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Women farmers--Nigeria.
Businesswomen--Nigeria.
Agricultural colonies--Nigeria.
Yoruba (African people)--Economic conditions.
Nigeria--Rural conditions.Publisher: West Hartford, Conn. : Kumarian Press, c1985.
Description: xviii, 50 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Series: Women's roles & gender differences in development ; 5
Kumarian Press case studies seriesNotes: "Prepared under the auspices of the Population Council"
Bibliography: p. 48-50.Call Number: HD6073 .F32 N67 1985
Location: Main 5th floor
Author: Caldwell, John C. (John Charles)
Title: The socio-economic explanation of high fertility : papers
on the Yoruba Society of Nigeria.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)--Economic conditions.
Yoruba (African people)--Social conditions.
Fertility, Human--Nigeria.Publisher: Canberra : Dept. of Demography, Australian National
University, 1976.Description: vii, 133 p. ; 24 cm.
Series: Changing African family project series : Monograph ; no. 1
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number: DT513 .C17
Location: Main 4th floor
Author: Asiwaju, A. I., 1939-
Title: Western Yorubaland under European rule, 1889-1945 : a
comparative analysis of French and British colonialism.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)--Politics and government.
Yoruba (African people)--Economic conditions.
Great Britain--Colonies--Administration.
France--Colonies--Administration.Publisher: London : Longman, 1976.
Description: xvi, 303 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series: Ibadan history series
Notes: A revision of the author's thesis, University of Ibadan, 1971.
Includes index. Bibliography: p. 279-295.Call Number: DT513 .A78 1976b
Location: Main 4th floor
Author: Anderson, David A., 1930-
Other Author(s): Wilson, Kathleen Atkins,Title: The origin of life on earth : an African creation myth /
retold by David A. Anderson/Sankofa ; illustrated by
Kathleen Atkins Wilson ; designed by Pete Traynor.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Creation--Folklore.
Yoruba (African people)--Folklore.
Folklore--Africa.Publisher: Mt. Airy, MD. : Sights Productions, c1991.
Description: 1st ed. 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 31 cm.
Notes: Retells the Yoruba creation myth in which the deity
Obatala descends from the sky to create the world.
Call Number: Folio PZ8.1 .A543 Or 1991
Location: Aderhold 2nd floor Curriculum Material Center
Author: Anda, Michael O.
Title: Yoruba.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)--Juvenile literature.
Publisher: New York : Rosen Pub. Group, 1996.
Description: 1st ed. 64 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.
Series: Heritage library of African peoples
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-61) and index.
Call Number: DT515.45 .Y67 A53 1996
Location: Aderhold 2nd floor Curriculum Material Center
Author: Thompson, Robert Farris.
Other Author(s): University of California, Los Angeles. Museum and
Laboratories of Ethnic Arts and Technology.Title: Black gods and kings; Yoruba art at UCLA.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Art, Yoruba.
Publisher: Los Angeles, University of California, Museum and
Laboratories of Ethnic Arts and Technology, 1971.Description: 1 v. (various pagings) illus. (part col.), maps. 28 cm.
Series: Occasional papers of the Museum and Laboratories of Ethnic
Arts and Technology, University of California, Los Angeles, no. 2Notes: Includes bibliography.
Call Number: N7399 .N52 Y66
Location: Main 7th floor
Other Author(s): Abiodun, Rowland.
Drewal, Henry John.
Pemberton, John, 1928-.Title: The Yoruba artist : new theoretical perspectives on
African arts / edited by Rowland Abiodun, Henry J.
Drewal, and John Pemberton III.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Arts, Yoruba--Congresses.
Arts, Black--Nigeria--Congresses.
Arts, Black--Benin--Congresses.Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1994.
Description: ix, 275 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 29 cm.
Notes: Based on a 1992 symposium held at the Museum Rietberg
Zurich. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-266).
Table of Contents: Art, identity, and identification : a commentary on Yoruba art historical studies / John Picton
In Three Parts.Call Number: NX589.6 .N5 Y67 1994
Location: Main 7th floor
Author: Fagg, William Buller.
Other Author(s): Holcombe, Bryce.
Pemberton, John, 1928-Title: Yoruba beadwork : art of Nigeria / by William Fagg ;
edited and with a foreword by Bryce Holcombe ;
descriptive catalogue by John Pemberton.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Beadwork, Yoruba--Nigeria--Catalogs.
Publisher: New York : Rizzoli, 1980.
Description: 99 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 93-95.
Call Number: NK3650 .F34
Location: Main 7th floor
Author: Awolalu, J. Omosade.
Title: Yoruba beliefs and sacrificial rites.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)--Religion.
Sacrifice. Rites and ceremonies--Nigeria.Publisher: London : Longman, 1979.
Description: xvi, 203 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number: BL2480 .Y6 A96
Location: Main 6th floor
Author: Ojo, G. J. Afolabi.
Title: Yoruba culture: a geographical analysis; foreword by S.O. Biobaku.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)
Publisher: Ife, University; London, University of London P. [1967]
Description: 303 p. front., 20 plates, maps, plans, tables. 23 cm.
Notes: Revision of author's thesis, National University of Ireland.
Bibliography: p. [279]-290.Call Number: DT513 .O36 1967
Location: Main 4th floor
Author: Ojo, Jerome O., 1916-
Other Author(s): Ojo, Valentine, 1948-Title: Yoruba customs from Ondo
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)
Ondo, Nigeria (Province)--Social life and customs.Publisher: Wien : [s.n.], 1976.
Description: 112 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Series: Acta ethnologica et linguistica ; Nr. 37
Series Africana ; 10Notes: "Manuscripts ... collected by Valentine Ojo of Ondo ...
Translations from Yoruba into English by Valentine Ojo."Call Number: DT513 .O370
Location: Main 4th floor
Author: Ajayi, Omofolabo S.
Title: Yoruba dance : the semiotics of movement and Yoruba body
attitude in a Nigerian culture.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Folk dancing, Yoruba--Nigeria.
Yoruba (African people)--Social life and customs.Publisher: Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c1998.
Description: xvi, 251 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes: Based on the author's doctoral dissertation.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-234) and index.Call Number: GV1713 .N6 A53 1998
Location: Main 2nd floor
Author: Fashagba, Joseph Ajayi.
Title: The first illustrated Yoruba dictionary : two parts:
Yoruba-English, English-Yoruba.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba language--Dictionaries--English.
English language--Dictionaries--Yoruba.Publisher: [S.l. : s.n.], c1991.
Description: 1st ed.
vi, 464 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.Call Number: PL8823 .F37 1991
Location: Main 3rd floor
Author: Alston, J. B.
Title: Yoruba drama in English : interpretation and production.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Nigerian drama (English)--Yoruba authors--History and criticism.
Nigerian drama (English)--20th century--History and criticism.
Theater--Nigeria--History--20th century.
Yoruba (African people)--Intellectual life.
Yoruba (African people) in literature.Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, 1989.
Description: 192 p. ; 24 cm.
Series: Studies in African literature ; v. 1
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]-190).
Call Number: PR9387.3 .A47 1989
Location: Main 3rd floor
Author: Euba, Akin, 1935-
Title: Yoruba drumming : the Dundun tradition.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)--Nigeria--Music--History and criticism.
Folk music--Nigeria--History and criticism.
Percussion ensembles--History and criticism.Publisher: Bareuth, W. Germany : E. Breitinger, Bayreuth University, c1990.
Description: 548 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Series: Bayreuth African studies series, 21/22
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 464-470) and index.
Call Number: ML3760 .E85 1990
Location: Main 7th floor
Author: Barber, Karin.
Title: Yoruba Dun un So : a beginners' course in Yoruba / devised by Karin Barber, with illustrations by the author.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba language-Textbooks for foreign speakers- English.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1985, c1984-
Description: v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes: English and Yoruba.
Call Number: PL8822 .B37 1985
Location: Main 3rd floor
Author: Bedford, Simi.
Title: Yoruba girl dancing.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Blacks--Fiction.
Publisher: New York : Viking, 1992.
Description: 184 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number: PR9387.9 .B44 Y67 1992
Location: Main 3rd floor
Author: Gwatkin, Nina W.
Other Author(s): Goodall, Ann.Title: Yoruba hairstyles; a selection of hairstyles in southern
Nigeria [by] Nina W. Gwatkin. Photos. by Ann Goodall.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Hairdressing of Blacks.
Hairdressing--Nigeria.Publisher: Lagos, Craft Centre, National Museum Compound, 1971.
Description: 42 p. illus. 21 cm.
Call Number: GT2290 .G850
Location: Main 6th floor
Other Author(s): Falola, Toyin.
Title: Yoruba historiography / edited by Toyin Falola.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)--Historiography.
Yoruba (African people)--History.Publisher: Madison, Wis. : African Studies Program, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, c1991.Description: 214 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes: Arabic, English, and Yoruba.
Includes bibliographical references and index.Call Number: DT515.45 .Y67 Y67 1991
Location: Main 4th floor
Author: Fagborun, J. Gbenga.
Title: The Yoruba koine : its history and linguistic innovations
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba language--Standardization.
English language--Influence on Yoruba.
Yoruba language--Foreign elements--English.Publisher: Munchen : Lincom Europa, 1994.
Description: xiv, 167 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Series: Linguistics edition ; 06
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number: PL8821 .F34 1994
Location: Main 3rd floor
Author: Lloyd, Peter Cutt.
Title: Yoruba land law.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Land tenure (Yoruba law)
Publisher: London, New York, Published for the Nigerian Institute of
Social and Economic Research, Ibadan, by the Oxford
University Press [1962]Description: xii,378p. illus.,maps. 23cm.
Notes: Reprinted 1964.
Bibliography: p.[364]-367.Call Number: HD1169 .Y6 L5
Location: Main 5th floor
Temporarily Shelved at :Repository
Author: Adetugbo, Abiodun.
Title: The Yoruba language in western Nigeria : its major dialect areas
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba language--Dialects--Nigeria--Western Nigeria.
Publisher: 1967.
Description: 270 leaves
Notes: Thesis--Columbia University.
Bibliography: leaves 262-270.
Microfilm. 1 reel. 35 mm.Call Number: HT1521 .D62 r.182, no.4
Location: Main Basement Microforms
Author: Ogumefu, M. I.
Title: Yoruba legends.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)--Folklore.
Legends--Nigeria. Tales--Nigeria.Publisher: New York : AMS Press, [1984]
Description: vi, 87 p. ; 19 cm.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: London : Sheldon Press, 1929.
Call Number: GR351.32 .Y56 O34 1984
Location: Main 6th floor
Author: Buckley, Anthony D.
Title: Yoruba Medicine.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)--Medicine.
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; N Y: Oxford Univ. Press, 1985.
Description: xi, 275 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis
(doctoral)--University of Birmingham, 1982.
Includes index. Bibliography: p. [250]-264.Call Number: DT515.45 .Y67 A57 1985
Location: Main 4th floor
Author: Delano, Isaac O.
Title: A dictionary of Yoruba monosyllabic verbs.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba language--Verb.
Publisher: Institute of African Studies, University of Ife, Nigeria 1969.
Description: 2 v. 33 cm.
Notes: On spine: Yoruba monosyllabic verbs.
Table of Contents: v. 1. A-L. v. 2. M-Y.
Call Number: PL8822 .D45
Location: Main 3rd floor
Other Author(s): Beier, Ulli.
Title: Yoruba myths: compiled and introduced by Ulli Beier.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Tales, Yoruba.
Mythology, Yoruba.Publisher: New Rochelle, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Description: xiv, 82 p. ; 19 cm.
Call Number: GR351.32 .Y56 Y67
Location: Main 6th floor
Author: Oduyoye, Modupe.
Title: Yoruba names; their structure and their meanings.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Names, Personal--Yoruba.
Publisher: Ibadan, [Nigeria] Daystar Press 1972.
Description: 108 p. illus., map. 22 cm.
Series: Nigerian names, no. 1
Notes: Includes bibliographical footnotes.
Call Number: CS3080 .Y5 O380
Location: Main 4th floor
Author: Drewal, Henry John.
Other Author(s): Pemberton, John, 1928-
Abiodun, Rowland.
Wardwell, Allen.Title: Yoruba : nine centuries of African art and thought
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Art, Yoruba.
Art and religion--Nigeria.
Yoruba (African people)--Religion.Publisher: N. Y : Center for African Art in Ass with H.N. Abrams, c1989.
Description: 256 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 31 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number: Folio N7399 .N52 Y68 1989
Location: Main 7th floor
Author: Bascom, William Russell, 1912-
Title: The Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)
Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1969]
Description: xvii, 118 p. illus., map. 24 cm.
Series: Case studies in cultural anthropology
Notes: Bibliography: p. 116-118.
Call Number: DT513 .B37
Location: Main 4th floor
Author: Baldwin, David E.
Other Author(s): Baldwin, Charlene M.Title: The Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria : an indexed
bibliography.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)--Bibliography.
Publisher: Boston : G. K. Hall, c1976.
Description: xxiii, 269 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes: Includes index.
Call Number: Z3597 .B34
Location: Main 2nd floor
Author: Bamgbose, Ayo.
Title: Yoruba orthography; a linguistic appraisal with
suggestions for reform.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba language--Writing.
Publisher: [Ibadan, Nigeria] Ibadan University Press, 1965.
Description: 33 p. 22 cm.
Notes: "Based on a talk given to the Egbe Ijinie Yoruba at Ibadan
on March 5, 1964."
Bibliographical footnotes.Call Number: PL8822 .B36
Location: Main 3rd floor
Author: Ojo, G. J. Afolabi.
Title: Yoruba palaces: a study of Afins of Yorubaland.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Palaces--Yoruba.
Publisher: [London] University of London Press [1966]
Description: 110 p. plates, maps, plans, tables. 21 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 106.
Call Number: NA1597 .Y6 O38 1966
Location: Main 7th floor
Author: Beier, Ulli.
Title: Yoruba poetry; an anthology of traditional poems compiled
and edited by Ulli Beier. Illustrated by Susanne Wenger.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba poetry--Translations into English.
English poetry--Translations from Yoruba.Publisher: Cambridge [Eng.] University Press, 1970.
Description: 126 p. illus. 23 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 126.
Call Number: PL8824 .Z95 E5 1970
Location: Main 3rd floor
Author: Gbadamosi, Bakare.
Other Author(s): Beier, Ulli.Title: Yoruba poetry. Traditional Yoruba poems collected and
translated by Bakare Gbadamosi and Ulli Beier.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Nigerian literature--Translations.
Publisher: Ibadan, Ministry of Education, General Publications
Section, 1959.Description: 68 p. illus.
Notes: "A special publication of 'Black Orpheus.'"
Microfilm. microfilm reelsCall Number: DT1 .A35 r.15, no.14
Location: Main Basement Microforms
Author: Barber, Karin.
Other Author(s): Ogundijo, Bayo.
Oyin Adejobi Company (Nigeria)Title: Yoruba popular theatre : three plays by the Oyin Adejobi
Company / transcribed, translated, and edited by Karin
Barber and Bayo Ogundijo.Primary Material: Book
Publisher: [Atlanta, GA] : African Studies Association, c1994.
Description: vii, 604 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Series: African historical sources ; #9
Notes: English and Yoruba.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 601-604).Table of Contents: Kuye
Laniyonu and another play
Call Number: PL8824 .B37 Y67 1994
Location: Main 3rd floor
Author: Delano, Isaac O.
Title: Owe l'esin oro; Yoruba proverbs, their meaning and usage,
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Proverbs, Yoruba.
Publisher: Ibadan, Oxford University Press, 1966.
Description: xi, 154 p. 19 cm.
Notes: Yoruba and English.
Call Number: PN6519 .Y6 D4
Location: Main 3rd floor
Author: Lindfors, Bernth.
Other Author(s): Owomoyela, Oyekan,Title: Yoruba proverbs: translation and annotation
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Proverbs, Yoruba.
Publisher: [Athens, Ohio University Center for International Studies,
Africa Program, 1973]Description: ix, 77 l. 28 cm.
Series: Papers in international studies. Africa series, no. 17
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number: DT1 .P33 no.17
Location: Main 4th floor
Author: Simpson, George Eaton, 1904-
Title: Yoruba religion and medicine in Ibadan / by George E.
Simpson.Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Yoruba (African people)--Religion.
Yoruba (African people)--Medicine.
Ibadan Region (Nigeria)--Religion.Publisher: Ibadan, Nigeria : Ibadan University Press, 1980.
Description: xii, 195 p., 26 p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 194-195.
Call Number: BL2480 .Y6 S55 1980
Location: Main 6th floor