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Yoruba Books
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Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀ (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.11 — 869 ratings — published 1938
The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.24 — 503 ratings — published 1994
A History of the Yoruba People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.38 — 34 ratings — published 2010
The History of the Yorubas (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as yoruba)
avg rating 3.89 — 87 ratings — published 1921
Yoruba Demon: Femi (Yoruba Demons Billionaire Club #1)
by (shelved 4 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.16 — 180 ratings — published 2025
The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as yoruba)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published
Ìrìnkèrindò Nínú Igbó Elégbèje (Expedition to the Mount of Thought)
by (shelved 4 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.23 — 127 ratings — published 1940
The Yoruba Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa: Their Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Language, Etc. (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.00 — 23 ratings — published
Fundamentals of the Yorùbá Religion (Òrìsà Worship)
by (shelved 4 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.30 — 44 ratings — published 1993
Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother Tongue to Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 1995
Teach yourself Yoruba (The Teach yourself books)
by (shelved 3 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 1973
The Yoruba: A New History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.36 — 14 ratings — published
Olodumare: God in Yoruba Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.11 — 53 ratings — published 1994
Orin Orisa: Songs for Selected Heads (English and Yoruba Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.52 — 52 ratings — published 1992
Òrìşà Devotion As World Religion: The Globalization of Yorùbá Religious Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.18 — 22 ratings — published 2007
Firstborn of the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.24 — 243 ratings — published 2025
A Grammar Of The Yoruba Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2015
Modern Yoruba: A concise introduction to the Yoruba language (Yoruba kasahorow Book 25)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 2013
Yorùbá Culture: A Philosophical Account (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.64 — 22 ratings — published 2014
Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.75 — 16 ratings — published 1989
Orishas: The Ultimate Guide to African Orisha Deities and Their Presence in Yoruba, Santeria, Voodoo, and Hoodoo, Along with an Explanation of Diloggun Divination (African Spirituality)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 3.86 — 58 ratings — published 2021
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 3.64 — 354,535 ratings — published 2018
Alawiye: Fun Awọn Ọmọdé: Ati Awọn Àgbà Ti O Nkọ́ Iwe Yoruba Ni Kikà (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.20 — 10 ratings — published 1971
Ìrèké-Oníbùdó (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.26 — 76 ratings — published 1949
ORISA: Yoruba Gods and Spiritual Identity in Africa and the Diaspora (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.50 — 10 ratings — published 2005
Osun Seegesi: The Elegant Deity of Wealth, Power, and Femininity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.28 — 18 ratings — published 1995
The Forest of God (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.34 — 76 ratings — published 1946
Sixteen Cowries: Yoruba Divination from Africa to the New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.22 — 41 ratings — published 1978
Yoruba Proverbs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.32 — 19 ratings — published 2005
Ifa y los Orishas: La Religion Antigua de la Naturaleza (Spanish Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.35 — 34 ratings — published 2008
Tales of Yoruba Gods & Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.03 — 35 ratings — published 1973
Colloquial Yoruba: The Complete Course for Beginners (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2007
The Architects of Existence: Aje in Yoruba Cosmology, Ontology, and Orature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.58 — 12 ratings — published 2014
Yoruba Learner's Dictionary: Yoruba-English, English-Yoruba (Kasahorow English Yoruba)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2013
Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere (McGill Studies in the History of Religions, a Series Devoted to International Scholarship)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.18 — 11 ratings — published 2003
Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.38 — 8 ratings — published 1992
The Yoruba Diaspora In The Atlantic World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.64 — 11 ratings — published 2005
Kingdoms of the Yoruba (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 3.87 — 15 ratings — published 1976
Yoruba Ritual: Performers, Play, Agency (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.00 — 22 ratings — published 1992
Osun Across the Waters : A Yoruba Goddess in (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.32 — 62 ratings — published 2001
Ifa Will Mend Our Broken World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.64 — 39 ratings — published
Seven African Powers: The Orishas (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as yoruba)
avg rating 4.26 — 384 ratings — published 2016
The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as yoruba)
avg rating 4.39 — 474 ratings — published 1997
Introduction to Ancient Yoruba Divination Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as yoruba)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as yoruba)
avg rating 4.56 — 9 ratings — published 2010
Cursed Daughters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as yoruba)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,145 ratings — published 2025
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as yoruba)
avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published 2010
Yorùbá Art and Aesthetics: Methodologies and Their Consequences (Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies)
by (shelved 1 time as yoruba)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
“Pronouns aside, there are also some languages that are essentially gender-free, containing very few words that make reference to a person’s “natural” gender at all. Yoruba, a language spoken in Nigeria, has neither gendered pronouns nor the dozens of gendered nouns we have in English, including son, daughter, host, hostess, hero, heroine, etc. Instead, the most important distinction in Yoruba is the age of the person you’re talking about. So, instead of saying brother and sister, you would say older sibling and younger sibling, or egbun and aburo. The only Yoruba words that make reference to a person’s gender (or sex, as it were) are obirin and okorin, meaning “one who has a vagina” and “one who has a penis.” So if you really wanted to call someone your sister, you would have to say egbon mi obirin, or “my older sibling, the one with the vagina.” When you get that specific, it makes our English obsession with immediately identifying people’s sexes seem just plain creepy.”
― Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
― Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
“In West African traditions, land belongs to the person who works it. Produce belongs to the person who grows it. Whatever is created belongs to the creators—not to the God that created them, and certainly not to the colonist or slavemaster.”
― Gods of the Flesh: A Skeptic's Journey Through Sex, Politics and Religion
― Gods of the Flesh: A Skeptic's Journey Through Sex, Politics and Religion
