The Souls of Yoruba Folk

The Souls of Yoruba Folk explores the spiritual lives and experiences of sixteen Africans of Yoruba descent in Canada, and investigates how they make meaning of their Indigenous heritage within the geopolitical space of Eurocentric Canadian culture. The book highlights how Yoruba peoples in the African diaspora strategically utilize their Indigenous spiritual knowledges as decolonizing tools of navigation, subversion, and resistance to colonial oppression in the purportedly 'multicultural' space of Canada. The author powerfully weaves together literature of Yoruba peoples from multiple contexts, spanning the African continent and its diaspora, including the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and Europe. With its strong emphasis on equity and the usefulness of spirituality in contexts of schooling, education, teaching, and learning, The Souls of Yoruba Folk is ideal for critical and multicultural education courses, and will be especially useful for educators and researchers in the areas of critical interdisciplinary studies, sociology, women's studies/feminism, anti-racist scholarship and pedagogy, critical education, Canadian studies, equity and religious studies, and African/Black diasporic studies.

Autorentext

Temitope E. Adefarakan holds a PhD from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. She is a lecturer in sociology at Victoria University and The Transitional Year Programme of the University of Toronto.

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Contents: A Call ... to the Souls of Yoruba Folk - Theories of Diasporic Indigeneity and Black Feminisms: Living and Imagining Indigeneity Differently - In Dialogue With the Souls of Yoruba Folk: Engaging a Yoruba Worldsense - Overtly Christian, Covertly Yoruba - At a Crossroads: Esu, Language, and the Politics of Critical Spiritual Literacy - «They're not always right but they're older»: The Polemics and Paradoxes of Seniority in Yoruba (Indigenous) Culture - The Response: «Ohun ti o wa leyin offa, o ju oje lo» [What follows six is more than seven] - An Open Letter to Teachers: Pedagogical Implications and Applications of The Souls of Yoruba Folk.