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treatise written entirely in Yoruba about Yoruba cultural practices and
Orisa. Contains much information not available anywhere in english.
A definite MUST for anyone who is serious about not only learning the
Yoruba language but also content that is relevant to greater knowledge
of Yoruba culture and spirituality. Purchase today and take your
knowledge acquisition into your own hands!
Lesson One: Home training and greeetings
Lesson Two: Games of Yorubaland
Ayo
Arin
Wrestling
Ijala
Okoto
Afako
Moonlight games
Storytelling
Eye meta tolongo waye
Mude-mude
Lesson Three: Marriage in Yorubaland
Looking for a wife
Asking for marriage
Idana
Preparations for wedding
Weddings in church
Marriage licenses
Marriages in court
Muslim weddings
Eleha
Divorce
Lesson Four: Taking care of pregnant women, childbirth and taking care of children
Pregnancy
Washing the child
Taking care of belly button/umbilical cord
Facial markings
Taking care of the child
Lesson Five: Naming ceremonies
Oriki praise names
Praising the land one is from
Praise names of Ela
Lesson Seven: Children who are born to die (Abiku)
Lesson Eight: The tradition of facial markings
Lesson Nine: Beautification and jewelry
Lesson Ten: Taking care of the head and hair
Lesson Eleven: Clothing of Yorubaland
Lesson Twelve: Business and Profitmaking
Lesson Thirteen: Susu and collective business enterprise
Lesson Fourteen: Pawnage
Lesson Fifteen: It is the King who owns the land
Lesson Sixteen: Kingmaking
Lesson Seventeen: Secret societies
Sorcerers and Sorceresses
Lesson Nineteen: Wars and warriorship
Lesson Twenty: Burial and Death in Yorubaland
Lesson Twenty-One: Ancestors
Lesson Twenty-Two: Reincarnation
Lesson Twenty-Three: Yoruba thoughts about Olodumare and Orisa
Lesson Twenty-Four: Various drums of Yorubaland
Learning drumming amongst the Yoruba
Traditional rulership amongst the Yoruba
Yoruba foods
Inherited professions of Yorubaland
Woven cloth
Blacksmithing
Carpentry/Carvers
Mat-weaving
Orisa of Yorubaland
Lesson Twenty-Five: Ela
Lesson Twenty-Six: Obatala/Orisa-Nla
Lesson Twenty-Seven: Aginju and Yemoja
Lesson Twenty-Eight: Ifa
The Odu
Propitiation of Orunmila
Lesson Twenty-Nine: Egungun the Ancestral order
Lesson Thirty: Oro
Lesson Thirty-One: Agemo
Lesson Thirty-Two: Orisa-Oko
Lesson Thirty-Three: Orisa-Ibeji
Lesson Thirty-Four: Sango
Lesson Thirty-Five: Sonponna
Lesson Thirty-Six: Ogun
Lesson Thirty-Seven: Esu
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