The Resiliency of Yoruba Traditional Healing: 1922-1955

Table of Contents

Dedication………………………………………………………………………………….iv Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………………..v Abstract of Dissertation………………………………………………………………….viii Table of Contents…………………………………………………………………………..x Glossary of Terms………………………………………………………………………..xiii List of Tables………………………………………………………………………………xv List of Figures……………………………………………………………………………..xvi

Chapter One: Introduction………………………………………………………………….1

Why The Resiliency of Yoruba Healing……………………………………………1

Research Question…………………………………………………………2

Project Significance………………………………………………………..5

Relevant Literature…………………………………………………………………6

Research Approach………………………………………………………………..19

Theory…………………………………………………………………….19 Methodology……………………………………………………………..22 Evidence…………………………………………………………………..25

Archival research…………………………………………………………26

Qualitative Interviews…………………………………………………….28

The Chapters……………………………………………………………………..30 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………34

Chapter Two: The History of Yoruba Healing…………………………………………….36

Yoruba Healing Prior to 1922………………………………………………………37

Yoruba Healing 1922-1930…………………………………………………………42

Yoruba Healing 1930-1945………………………………………………………..50

Yoruba Healing 1945-1955………………………………………………………..58

Yoruba Healing Post 1955………………………………………………………..65 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………68

Chapter Three: The Yoruba Social Landscape…………………………………………….69

Indigenous and Colonial Institutions in Yorubaland………………………………69

Economies in the Latter Colonial Era…………………………………….70

Governments Under Indigenous and Indirect Colonial Rule……………..76

Western Medicine in Colonial Yorubaland………………………………………..79

Imperial Medicine…………………………………………………………82