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21 février 2013
- doi: 10.4000/books.ifra.390
- isbn: 9789782015259
- eisbn: 9791092312140
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Biodun Adediran, « 4. The Process of Political Centralization », Institut français de recherche en Afrique, ID : 10.4000/books.ifra.390
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INTRODUCTION As is characteristic of oral tradition, the accounts that describe the ascendancy of migrant dynastic groups and the subsequent emergence of the three western Yorùbá kingdoms based on the Òyò-Ifę model are telescopic, leaving out the details of the struggles which accompanied the experiment in each locality. For instance, it is now fairly certain that the impression given in Yorùbá cosmogony that the much-popularized Odùduwà period was not the beginning of Yorùbá history is valid...