Research in African Literatures, Vol. 40, No. 1, Oral Literature and Identity Formation in Africa and the Diaspora (Spring, 2009), pp. 127-136 (10 pages) This paper discusses two bodies of songs from ...

Apart from the common items used in worship across faiths, Yoruba sayings or proverbs are sometimes used in Christian worship and they reflect cultural orientation of the people. Such are often used ...

Henry Abayomi Odeneye, an ordained pastor and apostle in the Apostolic Church, has spent over two decades in the United States, championing a unique ministry that marries faith, language, and culture.

This paper explores the role of African women, especially the Yoruba women, in literature by looking at the songs that form an integral part of their nuptial poetry (epithalamium). Music plays, ...

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Ayodeji Ogunnaike has been awarded a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship by the Ford Foundation. He was one of twenty-four scholars selected for this year's ...