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Yoruba Identity and Power Politics, edited by Toyin Falola and Ann Genova

Yoruba Identity and Power Politics provides a comprehensive analysis of Yoruba history in the contemporary world. The authors of the essays are proven Yoruba historians, the majority of them of Yoruba origin, and they are close to the sources of the evidence used in this well-illustrated book. Several of the contributors live and teach in Nigerian universities. There is already a substantial literature on the history of the Yoruba, but this book is distinctive in that it provides a modern approach to presenting and reconstructing Yoruba history beyond the Oyo model. The book emphasizes the ide…