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West African Traditions
West African religious, ethnographic, and folklore materials beyond the dedicated Yoruba and Ife subroom.
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At the Back of the Black Man's MindStudy of Bantu and Yoruba spiritual practices and philosophy in West AfricaFetichism in West AfricaStudy of West African traditional religion, spiritual beliefs, and practicesFolk Stories from Southern NigeriaWest African folklore from Southern Nigeria, with introduction by Andrew LangHausa Folk-loreTraditional Hausa folk tales from Nigeria, translated from the original HausaSome Nigerian Fertility Cults — P. Amaury TalbotP. Amaury Talbot’s 1927 study of fertility cults among the Ibo and their neighbours in Degama Division, Nigeria, gathered in the course of his administrative work there from 1914: the Ikoro drum, the Mbari houses of clay figures raised to the Earth Goddess Ale and the thunder god Amade Onhia, the phallic Ibudu and Eku, the yam cult, and the worship of Ale and the ancestors.Woman's Mysteries of a Primitive PeopleEthnography of Ibibio women's ritual life in Southern Nigeria