Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society

Illustrations

Preface
A Note on Orthography

Introduction
ONE HISTORY AND POLITICS
1. Traditions Reviewed: Ancient Ife and Old Oyo
2. Traditions Renewed: The Founding of Ayede

3. Dialectics of Power in Local Politics

TWO RITUAL AND KNOWLEDGE
.4 Sacred Kingship and Female Power

5. The Language of Ase
6. Interpreting the Pantheon
THREE HEGEMONY AND RESISTANCE
.7 The Genius of “Paganism”

8. The 1983 Elections
9. Yoruba Culture and Black

Texts

Conclusion
Notes
Glossary of Yoruba Terms
Bibliography

Index