Olódúmaré: God in Yorúbá Belief

E. Bólájí Ídówú

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Religion

Olódúmaré: God in Yorúbá Belief is the most weighty work on Yorúbá traditional religion accessible to us today.  Written at a time when African traditional religions were denied significant voice in the comparative study of religions, and when Africans were claimed not to have the knowledge of God before the European's arrival, Ídówú's book draws heavily on oral tradition - proverbs, myths, oral poetry and the Ifá divination corpus - to establish that Olódúmaré, the Yorúbá supreme God, has always been alive and well in the Yorúbá consciousness.