Unshared Identity: Posthumous Paternity in a Contemporary Yoruba Community (African Humanities)

Unshared Identity: Posthumous Paternity in a Contemporary Yoruba Community (African Humanities)Unshared Identity employs the practice of posthumous paternity in Ilupeju Ekiti, a Yoruba speaking community in Nigeria, to explore endogenous African ways of being and meaning making that are believed to have declined when the Yoruba and other groups constituting present day Nigeria were preyed upon by European colonialism and Westernization. However, the author's fieldwork for this book uncovered evidence of the resilience of Africa's endogenous

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