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"Women in Yorùbá Religions discusses the influence of Yoruba culture on women's religious lives and leadership in religions practiced by Yoruba people, covering themes like Yoruba women in Yoruba religion, Christianity, and Islam; women in African-derived religions in the diaspora; Yoruba religion and globalization; and LGBTQ adherents of Yoruba religion"--

A study of oriki, or oral praise poetry, which is a major part of both traditional performance and daily Yoruba life.

Opening -- Sources and questions -- Yorubaland, 1820-1893 -- Colonial Yorubaland, 1893-1960 -- Family and marriage -- Labor, property, and agriculture -- Income-generating activities in the nineteenth century -- New approaches to familiar roles during the colonial period -- Western skills and service careers -- Religion, cultural forms, and associations -- Regents and chiefs, economic organizations, and politics -- Patriarchy, colonialism, and women's agency

"Lorelle D. Semley explores the historical and political meanings of motherhood in West Africa and beyond, showing that the roles of women were far more complicated than previously thought. While in Kétou, Benin, Semley discovered that women were treasurers, advisors, ritual specialists, and colonial agents in addition to their more familiar roles as queens, wives, and sisters. These women with special influence made it difficult for the French and others to enforce an ideal of subordinate women. As she traces how women gained prominence, Semley makes clear why powerful mother figures still exist in the symbols and rituals of everyday practices"--Provided by publisher.

This fascinating ethnographic study investigates gendered power in contemporary Nigeria in order to provide an understanding of The Ondo Women's War of 1985. Sanctioned by Ondo's female chiefs in the name of their female king, this tax protest escalated into rebellion when ordinary women threatened the use of their ultimate weapon -their own nakedness. Focusing on a specific Yoruba case history, this book challenges many western feminist assumptions about women's lack of status in Africa.

Cover -- Dedication -- About the Series -- Board Members -- Published in this series -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- Fieldwork -- Some notes on the study area -- Epistemological challenges in developing this work -- Notes -- 1. Yoruba interconnections, colonial encounters, and epistemological crises -- Interconnections in the Yoruba epistemologies -- The dynamics of 'unequal encounters' -- Posthumous paternity, levirate and widow inheritance -- Between identity and identification -- Organisation of this book -- Notes -- 2. The fated grass: Self-representation and identity construction -- (Un)veiling the posthumous offspring -- Being 'born from another man's hands' -- Ethnographic vignettes: Posthumous offspring and self-presentation -- Picking up the pieces of a broken self -- Notes -- 3. Posthumous offspring and the politics of legitimacy -- Borders of legitimacy -- Legitimacy and the identity of power -- Posthumous paternity: Where the church stands -- Notes -- 4. Endogenous values, spatial delineation and cultural authenticity -- Posthumous paternity and Yoruba cultural authenticity -- Levirate or widow inheritance -- Revisiting the Yoruba concept of (il)legitimacy -- Notes -- 5. Neo-repugnancy: Assisted reproduction as an obscenity -- When innovation is negotiated -- Children made by doctors -- Two faces/phases of the repugnancy doctrine -- Help, donation, and making women pregnant -- 'ART' and the cultural construction of adultery -- Notes -- 6. Beyond 'epistemicide': (Re)claiming humanity for Africa -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.

"Yoruba Creativity: Cultural Practices of the Modern World provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the multifaceted contributions of the Yoruba, one of the largest ethnic groups in Nigeria. It skillfully interrogates the epistemological foundations of the development of the cultural values, ethos, and survival strategies of the Yoruba from the pre-colonial era to the present day. It presents a compelling examination of the role of Yoruba memoirs in the social construction of memory and identity, as well as the cultural basis of marriage, mothering, and the critical role of the family unit in Yoruba society. Also, the book discusses the crucial role of men and women in entrepreneurship and economic development and the numerous factors that have influenced their participation in trade activities. It presents a cogent analysis of the critical institution of the Monarchy in the past and present, as well as the important role of the institution of the chieftaincy. Using a multi-layered methodological approach, including a lived historical perspective, the author recounts the process through which she also became Yoruba through the conferment of three chieftaincy titles each on her and her husband, the highest of which was presented to them by His Royal Majesty, King (Oba) Michael Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo, the Okukenu IV, Alake and Paramount Ruler of Egbaland"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- FOREWORD -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PART I - GENERAL -- Tribal and Sub-Tribal Groupings and Demography -- Nomenclature -- Location -- Grouping -- Population Estimates -- History and Traditions of Origin -- Language -- Physical Environment -- Main Features of Economy -- Agriculture -- Cocoa Farming -- Palm Products -- Trade -- Crafts -- Social Organisation and Political Structure -- Local and Kinship Grouping -- Kinship Terminology -- Forms of Settlement -- Age Sets -- Associations and Guilds -- Women' s Associations -- Cult Groups -- The State -- Administration -- Personnel of Government -- Military Organisation -- Legal Procedure -- Inheritance of Goods -- Land Tenure -- Slavery -- Pawning -- Main Cultural Features -- Dress and Tribal Marks -- Birth -- Circumcision Rites -- Marriage -- Divorce -- Religious Beliefs and Cults -- Shamanism -- Magic -- PART II -- 1. Oyo or Yoruba Proper -- 2. Ife-Ilesha -- 3. Ibadan -- 4. Egba, Egbado, Tsha, Ana(Ife) and related groups -- 5. Ijebu -- 6. Ekiti and related groups -- 7. Ondo -- 8. Yoruba in the Colony -- 9. Yoruba in the Northern Provinces -- Bibliography

Nike Davies is one of the few African women known internationally in contemporary art circles. The Woman with the Artistic Brush traces her life history and illustrates the strategies developed by women to mitigate male rule. Presenting a critique of the woman's place in contemporary Yoruba society from the perspective of a woman who lived it, this book covers Nike's life from the time of her mother's death when Nike was six to the culmination of her dream in the creation, against severe societal odds, of a center for arts and culture that has over 120 members. Along the way, The Woman with the Artistic Brush details how Nike ran away from home and joined a traveling theater group after her father tried to arrange her marriage, subsequently married and joined in the polygynous household of a noted artist from the popular Osogbo school, and finally broke clear of that situation after suffering sixteen years of domestic violence.

"The "woman question", this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western contruction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures." "Oyewumi traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. Her analysis shows the paradoxical nature of two fundamental assumptions of feminist theory: that gender is socially constructed in old Yoruba society, and that social organization was determined by relative age."--Jacket

There is significant religious and linguistic evidence that Yorùbá society was not gendered in its original form. In this follow-up to The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses , Oy?wùmí explores the intersections of gender, history, knowledge-making, and the role of intellectuals in the process