In Global Yorùbá, renowned scholar Toyin Falola covers the history, people, traditions, environment, religion, spirituality, cosmology, culture, and philosophy of one of Africa's largest cultural groups, the Yorùbá, all while considering the people's relationship with their immediate and distant neighbors.

Falola examines how the Yorùbán people have adapted to their environment and tapped it to (re)invent their civilization, shape their culture and traditions, and inform their socioeconomic relations with their neighbors. These interactions have guided the Yorùbá philosophy that developed over time, expressing their conviction regarding society's evolution and the place that humans occupy within it. This web of knowledge can present a more coherent account than any other text yet produced regarding Yorùbá civilization.

This volume demonstrates how global dynamics have been adopted in the creation of a Yorùbá community across different times and spaces.

Maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Making and Form of Global Yorùbá
Part 1: Pan-Yorubana
2. Mythologies: Yoruba Society and Knowledge System
3. Early History and Mythologies of Networks
4. Cosmologies and Epistemologies
5. Oyo and Its Heterogeneity
6. The Yorùbá and Their Neighbors
7. Mobility within West Africa
Part 2: The Yoruba in the World of Religion
8. Òrìà: Spiritual Networks and Practices
9. Islam in the Yorùbá World
10. Christianity in the Yorùbá World
11. Religion and Globalization
Part 3: Modernity, Post-Coloniality, and Globalization
12. Yoruba and Modernity
13. Colonialism and the Yorùbá
14. Cultural Icons and Progress Narratives
15. Obafemi Awolowo's Politics in Global Context
16. Ibadan: The Intellectual Capital City
17. Nollywood in the World of Creativity
18. The Yorùbá Nation and Its Borderless Creativity
19. The Media and Internet Nation
Conclusion
20. Yorùbá beyond Borders
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Toyin Falola is Distinguished Teaching Professor and Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Falola is author/editor of over one hundred and fifty books on African history, politics, and society and the recipient of sixteen honorary doctorates from around the world, as well as more than thirty lifetime achievement awards.