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Decolonization without a linguistic turn is like drinking sugar without tea: Ọlábíyìí Babalọlá Joseph Yáì

Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 308-320 | Published online: 22 Apr 2021

Selected Yai Bibliography

  • Yai, Olabiyi. “African Ethnonymy and Toponymy: Reflections on Decolonization African Ethnonyms and Toponyms.” General History of Africa: Studies and Documents 6 (1984): 39–50.
  • Yai, Olabiyi. “African Oral Poetry Criticism: Some Epistemological and Methodological Considerations,” University of Texas, Austin, Unpublished Paper, 1994.
  • Yai, Olabiyi Babalola Joseph, and Sidney Littlefield Kasfir Kasfir. “Authenticity and Diaspora.” Museum International 56.1-2 (2004): 190–7.
  • Yai, Olabiyi Babalola. “Deviation and Intertextuality in Yoruba Oral Poetry.” West African Languages Conference, University of Ghana, Legon. Unpublished Paper, 1972.
  • Yai, Olabiyi Babalola. “From Vodun to Mawu: Monotheism and History in the Fon Cultural Area.” L’invention Religieuse en Afrique: Histoire et Religion en Afrique Noire. Ed. Jean-Pierre Chretien. Paris: Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique. Karthala, 1993. 241–65.
  • Yai, Olabiyi Babalola. “Fundamental Issues in African Oral Literature.” Ife Studies in African Literature and the Arts 1 (1982): 4–17.
  • Yai, Olabiyi Babalola. “The Identity, Contributions, and Ideology of the Aguda (Afro-Brazilians) of the Gulf of Benin: A Reinterpretation.” Slavery & Abolition 22.1 (2001): 61–71.
  • Yai, Ọlabiyi “Igbésẹ Ewi Yorubá: Rírò Ni Gbẹ̀gìrì.” Unpublished Seminar Paper. Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. 29 April, 1981.
  • Yai, Ọlabiyi Babalọla. “In Praise of Metonymy: The Concepts of ‘Tradition’ and ‘Creativity’ in the Transmission of Yoruba Artistry over Time and Space.” Research in African Literatures 24.4 (1993): 29–37.
  • Yai, Olabiyi Babalola Joseph, and Jessica Smith. “Interview.” <https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/UF/00/00/61/73/00001/UF247A.pdf>
  • Yai, Olabiyi. “Issues in Oral Poetry: Criticism, Teaching, and Translation.” GURT ' 86: Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages & Linguistics. Ed. Simon P. X. Battestini, 1986. 91–106.
  • Yai, O. B. “On Omolara Ogundipe-Leslie’s ‘the Poetics of Fiction by Yoruba Writers: The Case of Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmale’ ODU 16 (July 1977).” Odu 18 (1978): 120–2.
  • Yai, Olabiyi Babalola. “Orientation: Lost and Found.” The Savannah Review 3 (2014): 1–9.
  • Yai, Olabiyi Babalola. The Path is Open: the Herskovits Legacy in African Oral Narrative Analysis and Beyond. PAS Working Papers Number 5. Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, 1999.
  • Yai, Olabiyi Babalola. “The Path Is Open: The Legacy of Melville and Frances Herskovits in African Oral Narrative Analysis” Research in African Literatures 30.2 (1999): 1–16
  • Yai, Olabiyi. “Texts of Enslavement: Fon and Yoruba Vocabularies from Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Brazil.” Identity in the Shadow of Slavery. Ed. Paul Lovejoy. New York: Continuum, 2000. 102–12.
  • Yai, Olabiyi Babalola. “Tíọ́rì Lítíréṣọ̀ Àtẹnudẹ́nu: Àjùbà” Paper Presented at the Yoruba Studies Association Conference, University of Ibadan, April 28–29, 1986.
  • Yai, Olabiyi. “Theory and Practice in African Philosophy: The Poverty of Speculative Philosophy: A Review of the Work of P. Hountondji, M. Towa et al.” Positive Review 2 (1978): 8–15.
  • Yai, Olabiyi. “Theory and Practice in African Philosophy: The Poverty of Speculative Philosophy.” Second Order: An African Journal of Philosophy 6 (1977): 3–20.
  • Yai, Ọlabiyi Babalọla “Towards a New Poetics of Oral Poetry in Africa.” Ifẹ̀: Annals of the Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Ife, Nigeria 1 (1986): 40–55.
  • Yai, Olabiyi Babalola. “Tradition and the Yoruba Artist.” African Arts 32.1 (1999): 32–5.
  • Yai, Ọlabiyi Babalọla “Wútùwútù Yáákí.” Yoruba: Journal of the Yoruba Studies Association of Nigeria 2 (1976): 43–58.
  • Yai, Olabiyi Babalola. “Yoruba Religion and Globalization: Some Reflections.” Cuadernos Digitales: Publicación Electrónica En Historia, Arvchivística Y Estudios Sociales. No. 15. Universad de Costa Rica. Escuela de Historia. Octubre del, 2001.
  • Yai, Olabiyi Babalola. Yoruba-English/English-Yoruba Concise Dictionary. New York: Hippocrene, 1996.

Other References

  • Adéẹ̀kọ́, Adélékè. Arts of Being Yorùbá: Divination, Allegory, Tragedy, Proverb, Panegyric. Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 2017.
  • Adéẹ̀kọ́, Adélékè. Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1998.
  • Apter, Andrew. “Yoruba Ethnogenesis from Within.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 55.2 (2013): 356–87.
  • Bámgbóṣé, Ayọ̀, ed. Yorùbá Metalanguage (Èdè-Ìperí Yorùbá). Volume 1. A Glossary of English-Yorùbá Technical Terms in Language, Literature, and Methodology. Sponsored by Nigeria Educational Research and Development Council and Compiled by the Ẹgbẹ́-Onimo-Ede-Yoruba (the Yorùbá Studies Association of Nigeria). First Published by Nigeria Educational Research Council, Lagos, 1984. Ibadan: University Press, PLC, 1992.
  • Barber, Karin. I Could Speak Until Tomorrow: Oriki, Women, and the past in a Yoruba Town. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.
  • George, Olakunle. “The ‘Native’ Missionary, the African Novel, and in-Between.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 36.1 (2002): 5–25.
  • Kalu, Anthonia C. “Francis Abiola Irele: Contemplations on the ‘Power of Events and the African Experience’ in African Literature.” Journal of the African Literature Association 14.1 (2020): 31–42.
  • Òkédìjí, Ọládẹ̀jọ. Rẹ́rẹ́ Rún. Ibadan: Onibonoje Press, 1973.
  • Olupona, Jacob K. “To Praise and to Reprimand: Ancestors and Spirituality in African Society and Culture.” Ancestors in Post-Contact Religion: Roots, Ruptures, and Modernity’s Memory. Ed. Steven J. Friesen. Cambridge, MA: Center for the Study of World Religions, 2001. 49–71.
  • Owomoyela, Oyekan. Yoruba Proverbs. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2005.
  • Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́. What Gender is Motherhood? Changing Yorùbá Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity. New York: Palgrage, 2016.
  • Soyinka, W. You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir. New York: Random House, 2007.
  • Verran, Helen. Science and an African Logic. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2001.
  • Wiredu, Kwasi. “Toward Decolonizing African Philosophy and Religion.” African Studies Quarterly 1.4 (1998). https://asq.africa.ufl.edu/files/Vol-1-Issue-4-Wiredu.pdf.

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