Migration and the Yorùbá Myth of Origin
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2016-03-01
Authors
Akande, A. O.
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East West Association for Advance Studies
Abstract
There are two popular Yorùbá myth of origin. There is the tale of Obatala and Oduduwa in the tussle to create the earth - commonly referred to as the myth of creation. And there is the other tale involving a great migration from “mecca” to Ile Ifè. Through a scaled down recreation experiment, this study examined the possibility that the Yorùbá migration myth is in fact a plausible explanation for the establishment of the Yorùbá in their present location.
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Migration , Myth , Yoruba , origin , folklore
Citation
Akande, A. O. (2016). Migration and the Yorùbá Myth of Origin. European Journal of Arts, 1(1), 36-44.