YORÙBÁ STUDIES REVIEW, Volume 2, Number 2, Spring 2018

Oloruntoyin Falola Discussion

Published by the University of Florida, University of Carolina, Charlotte, and the University of Texas at Austin, the current edition has been released

 

YORÙBÁ STUDIES REVIEW

 

Volume 2, Number 2, Spring 2018

 

 

Contents

 

Essays

 

Èdè Àyàn: The Language of Àyàn in Yorùbá Art and Ritual of Egúngún

Olawole Famule

 

Palace Courtyards in Iléṣà: A Melting Point of Traditional Yorùbá Architecture

Stephen Folaranmi and Babasẹhinde Ademulẹya

 

Healthcare Delivery among Yoruba Bonesetters in Southwest Nigeria and the Need for Collaboration with Orthodox Orthopedic Healthcare Services: A Mixed Method Study

Soladoye S. Asa, Matthew O. Ilori, and Lawrence A. Akinyoola

 

The Survival of the Yorùbá Healing Systems in the Modern Age

Ilesanmi Akanmidu Paul

 

Language and the African Philosophical Traditions

Kola Abimbola

 

Constructing Identities: Amos Tutuola and the Ibadan Literary Elite in the wake of Nigerian Independence

Mackenzie Finley

 

The Transition from Yorùbá Metaphysics to Islamic Aesthetics in Ọláńrewájú Adépọ̀jù’s Poetry

Stephen Toyin Ogundipe

 

Dialetics and Structural Organization in the Ẹ̀bìbì Festival Performances of the Ẹ̀pẹ́ People in Lagos State, Nigeria

Babatunde Olanrewaju Adebua and Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa

 

Social Media Marketing in the Yorùbá Video Film Industry

Olagoke Alamu

 

 

Book Review

Toyin Falola. The Toyin Falola Reader on African Culture, Nationalism, Development and Epistemologies

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

 

Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin, Yunusa Kehinde Salami and Kola Abimbola (eds.)

Exploring the Ethics of Individualism and Communitarianism. Harvest Day Publications, 2016, 365p.

Adeshina Afolayan

Book Forum

Rowland Abiodun, Yoruba Art and Language: Seeking the African in African Art. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2014, 386p. Four essays presented at a Roundtable on the book during 2016 African Studies Association (ASA) conference.

 

Ẹlẹ́nu Rírì àti Àmù Ìyá Rẹ̀

Moyosore Okediji

 

Yoruba Epistemology, Art, Language and the Universe of Meanings: A Meta-Analysis

Michael O. Afolayan

 

"The Landbound Chicken and the Deliberate Chameleon yet have their Uses": Yorùbá Art History, Language, and Interpretation

Kathy Curnow

 

On Appreciating and Understanding African Art

Rowland Abiodun

 

Conference Review

Toyin Falola @ 65: African Knowledges and Alternative Futures

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

 

Toyin Falola @ 65: African Knowledges and Alternative Futures

Amber Murrey and Edith Phaswana

 

 

 

From the Archives

Keynote presented in 2006 at the conference on proverbs held at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

 

Proverbs and African Modernity: Defining an Ethics of Becoming

Oyekan Owomoyela