Yoruba Sacred Kingship: A Power Like That Of The Gods; Author: Pemberton, John, Iii; Joint Author: Afolayan, Funso S.; Hardback; Book

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Yoruba Sacred Kingship: A Power Like That Of The Gods

Author: Pemberton, John, Iii; Joint Author: Afolayan, Funso S.
Hardback; Book
252 pages
Published: September 1996
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN: 156098631X

Drawing on two decades of research and interviews with civic and religious leaders, this book explores the creation and transmission of political memory and authority, focusing on the tradition of kingship in a Yoruba town in southwestern Nigeria. The author argues that oral traditions, rituals, and festivals preserve, transmit, and shape social norms and historical identity.Looks at how oral traditions preserve cultural history.

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