Yemi D. Ogunyemi
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Path to Ifetherapy is the first book on Massage to Ifetherapy to emerge from the Atlantic Yoruba, Nigeria, Africa. Based on the traditional method used by the keepers of traditions, Ifetherapy still has its curative power today--in the name of Creator-Philosopher God/Olodumare, to conjure up the spirit of wellness and heal the body from head to toe, as it used to do during the ancient times.
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M-A-S-T-A-M-A-N-D-A uses its poetic moral strength to pray the "citizens of colonialism and slavery" to start to dignify themselves, now that we are in the 21st century. Bearing a non-colonial or a non-slavish name is the beginning of my civilization, dream of a new beginning, enlightenment and freedom which we are yearning for. Thus M-A-S-T-A-M-A-N-D-A is an attempt to control one percent, just one percent of my identity and a percent of my human-head-destiny,...
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Study of Yoruba Civilization and The Importance of Philosophy speaks to two books in one.
Let us start with Study of Yoruba Civilization which lets us know what qualifies a territory, a community or a nation to be civilized. Civilization is a high level of cultural development that relates to science, industry, arts and government. The Importance of Philosophy informs us and illuminates our minds. It enhances our faculties in whatever we need to...
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Quid Pro Quo and Other Narratives is a Poetry Book, divided into Book One and Book Two. Book One ruminates upon the non-literate life of the Yoruba people, from which we get to learn about divinity-philosopher Oduduwa's take on Quid Pro Quo.
Book Two sheds light on the philosophical, literary and the religious earth-bound journey narratives of the most prominent divinity-philosophers in Yoruba land.
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The Danger of a Single Rejection (The Anthologies of Hope) has become the byword for every writer whose work has been rejected more than ten times by the mainstream publishers. Even the lucky writers with uplifting connections are not callous to the pangs of rejections. The Danger of a Single Rejection is the brainchild of these Anthologies of Hope.
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The Book of Enlightenment delights in telling us that IFA is NOT a religion per se, but an integral part of The Book of Enlightenment or The Book of Knowledge comprising religion, philosophy, psychology, literature, cosmogony, cosmology, anthropology, ethnology, mathematics, sociology, ethnology and other areas of human learning.
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The Oyo Empire is a high-interest novella of magic realism. The fairytale of this mythical Oyo Empire is told by the mononymous gimlet-eyed Ijapa, the endomorph, the folk hero and the fabled protagonist of antiquity of Yoruba folktales. Versed in folk etymology and folk memory, he lets us know that he belongs to the midgets, the small gimlet-eyed fairies with magic carpets and supernatural/magic powers who founded the mythical Oyo Empire about 25,...
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Ajayi Crowther's Piano is a dramatized historical novel touching upon the political, commercial, sociological, religious, philosophical, literary, humanistic and adventurous reflections about the slave trade during which time Ajayi Crowther (1807-1891) rose from a basket-weaver to become the first Anglican African Bishop in Nigeria.
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Women In Europe is the author's journalistic experience while he was working as a reporter in Europe in the 1980s. Thus the book is born out of his interviews he had with women in Europe, hoping that the African women could learn politically, economically and socially from experiences of women in Europe.
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Pursuit of Wisdom is a reflection upon the days of heroes and legends. Pursuit of Wisdom depicts Caryatid, a troubadour, versed in paradoxes and contradictions, who had a bent for wisdom. Together with his wife, Durosinmi, his dream was realized but they continued because they believe that the search for wisdom is like a divine story that never ends.