Ifá Will Mend Our Broken World: Thoughts on Yoruba Religion and Culture in Africa and the DiasporaThis book is a series of interviews with Wande Abimbola on various aspects of Yoruba life, religion and culture in West Africa and the Americas. It focuses on contemporary and historic Yoruba culture in Brazil, Cuba and the United States of America. |
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