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Title: | Iwe Itan Oyo: A Traditional Yoruba History and Its Author |
Authors: | Adeyemi, M.C. Falola, Toyin Doortmont, M.R. |
Year: | 1989 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 30 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 301-329 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | Oyo polity history traditional polities historical sources History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/183070 |
Abstract: | This article offers a translation and an analysis of a history of .Oy.o (Nigeria), written in Yoruba and published in 1914. The original text by M.C. Adey.emi, entitled 'Iwe Itan .Oy.o-Ile ati .Oy.o Isisiyi abi Ag.o-d'.Oy.o' (A History of Old and New Oyo), comprises 32 pages, divided into ten short chapters, six of which treat the history of .Oy.o from its origins to 1914. The remaining four chapters examine cultural and political institutions. A content analysis of the text is presented, and its strengths and weaknesses are discussed. Biographical information on the author of Iwe Itan .Oy.o is also presented. The article is the first in a series of pieces using specific documents to illustrate the problems of methodology and interpretation encountered by historians of Africa in the use of sources. Notes, ref., sum. |