Masquerading Politics: Kinship, Gender, and Ethnicity in a Yoruba Town (African Expressive Cultures)

Masquerading Politics: Kinship, Gender, and Ethnicity in a Yoruba Town (African Expressive Cultures)In West Africa, especially among Yoruba people, masquerades have the power to kill enemies, appoint kings, and grant fertility. John Thabiti Willis takes a close look at masquerade traditions in the Yoruba town of Otta, exploring transformations in performers, performances, and the institutional structures in which masquerade was used to reveal ongoing changes in notions of gender, kinship, and ethnic identity. As Willis focuses on performers and

From a debut Nigerian author: a spectacular young adult fantasy rooted in West African mythology and brimming with adventure

Before they know it

including Keith Ellison

ISBN-13 : 9781938073816

But when an undercover detective gets way too close

having denounced Stalin's Soviet Union

The long awaited book by Kush author of What  They Never Told you in History Class

After winning independence in 1836

Publication date : April 23

whether in the form of a Nigerian widower who immigrates to a meager existence in the city of Alexandria

Within the portico leading into the Hathor temple at Dendera is a little-known outstanding achievement of humanity: an extensive colored bas-relief—larger than the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel—meticulously encoded with the sophisticated astronomical knowledge of ancient Egypt

Wird er von seinem Fehler lernen