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
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