Look Around

The praise poetry that attaches a person to a place of origin, why Yoruba people carry a town identity they may never have lived in, and how that identity crossed the Atlantic.

An examination of the Ìbọ̀lọ́ subgroup of the Yorùbá, detailing their historical geography as an Old Ọ̀yọ́ province, dialectal classification, political institutions, and distinctive ritual practices.

Karin Barber's finding that oríkì in Okuku is held and performed mainly by women, with texts showing what that custodianship does at a wedding, at a festival, and inside a marriage.

Three lineage oríkì from Karin Barber's Okuku fieldwork, plus the Olúfọ́n dynasty and the Ìkòyí warrior lineage whose praise obliges the chanter to include its own dishonour.