Kingdoms of the Yoruba

by Robert Sydney Smith

Book Overview

This third edition of what has been described as "this minor classic" has been extensively revised to take account of advances in Nigerian historiography.
The twenty million Yorubas are one of the largest and most important groups of people on the African continent. Historically they were organized in a series of autonomous kingdoms and their past is richly recorded in oral tradition and archaeology. From the fifteenth century onwards there are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299116042
• ISBN13: 9780299116040
• Release Date: July 1988
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"