Yoruba and African History as a Quest for Meaning : An Exploratory Journey with Akinwumi         
    Ogundiran's The Yoruba : A New History

 

      Inspirational Book Description from Call For Papers  from Yoruba Studies Review journal  that led me to            Ogundiran's book. 

      My Own Call for Papers 12th May 2022: "Transdisciplinary Dynamics in Historiography : Akinwumi

      Ogundiran's The Yoruba: A New History "

 

      General Summations

 

    "In Search of the Children of Ọmọlúàbí: Yorùbá as Way of Life Rather than as Ethnic Identity: Reading

     Akinwumi Ogundiran's The Yorùbá: A New History 1: The Preface and the Introduction." 

 

    "Struggle, Triumph, Destruction and Resurgence in Yoruba History as a Great Human Narrative: Akinwumi

      Ogundiran's The Yoruba : A New History."

     "The Journey of the Children of Omoluabi: Yoruba History as a Quest for Meaning in Akin Ogundiran’s                  The Yorùbá: A New History Part 1. [Edited] "

 

       ''African History as a Quest for Meaning: Research Recapitulation and Reflections on Adapting the           

       Methods of Akinwumi Ogundiran's  The Yoruba : A New History in Studying the Development of African                 Thought in its Environmental and Social Matrix.''

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      "Between the Universal and the Particular : Understanding the Universal Significance of Akinwumi

       Ogundiran's The Yoruba : A New History"
 

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    On Specific Themes

 

    "Convergence and Divergence of Politics and Spirituality in the Yoruba Origin Ifa System of Knowledge: A

     Dilemma Emerging from Conflicts Between Akin Ogundiran as Scholarly Book Author and Social Media               Contributor."    

 

     "The Dilemma of a Babaláwo :  Ogunbiodun and the Tension between Politics and Spirituality in Classical

       Ifè."

       "Poetically Powerful  Summation of Yoruba Origin Orisa Cosmology Integrating the Work of Akinwumi

       Ogundiran and Wole Soyinka."

       

 

 

        "Ecofeminism in Yoruba Thought: From Earliest Times to the Present: A Factual and Speculative Overview

        Inspired by Akinwumi Ogundiran's The Yoruba : A New History."

 

        "Constructing Infinity :The Ifè Synthesis of Òrìṣà Cosmology and Ifá as Described by Akinwumi

         Ogundiran : A Network of Quotations Compiled by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju"

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               Historiography

     "Ifa Divination as Historiographic Paradigm: Between the Sacred and the Secular, Politics and Spirit in Akin         Ogundiran's The Yoruba: A New History on Yoruba History as a Quest for Meaning : Part 2 : Very Short                   Reflection" [ With a discussion at this link]

      "Fact and Speculation in Historical Narrative: Akinwumi Ogundiran’s The Yorùbá: A New History: Yorùbá

        History as a Quest for Meaning." (  Parts One, Two and Three)

       "Developing a Historiographic Method Inspired by Yoruba Thought 1 : Motivated by Akinwumi

        Ogundiran’s The Yoruba : A New History, on Yoruba History as a Quest for Meaning."

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         "What Can an African Philosopher Gain from Hegel, Abhinavagupta and Ramana Maharshi? : Developing             African Philosophy through the Inspiration of German Idealism and Indian Philosophy in Relation to                   Yoruba History as a Quest for Meaning in Akinwumi Ogundiran's The Yoruba : A New History."