Sixteen Great Poems of Ifa, Wande Abimbola's 1975 scholarly translation and study published by UNESCO, presents sixteen major Ifa divination poems by a leading Yoruba scholar who was himself trained in the Ifa tradition. Its strength is that it combines academic translation with the author's own standing within the tradition it documents. Its limit is that it presents a selection of sixteen poems from a vastly larger oral corpus; broader claims about the full Ifa literary tradition should draw on Abimbola's other, wider ranging work as well.
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Wande Abimbola's Sixteen Great Poems of Ifa, published by UNESCO in 1975, combines academic translation with the author's own recognized standing as a scholar trained within the Ifa tradition, treated at the top tier as specialist scholarship, notwithstanding that it presents a selection from a vastly larger oral corpus. NotesWande Abimbola's scholarly translation and study of sixteen great Ifa divination poems, published by UNESCO, 1975.
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AuthorWande Abimbola
PublisherUNESCO
Publication Year1975
Source TypeBook (scholarly)
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