Ifa Divination in Yorubaland 1851–1989: A Select Bibliography

Abdul M. O. A. 1970 Yoruba Divination and Islam, Orita, IV: 1, pp. 17–25.

Abimbola W. 1964 The Odu of Ifa: Divinatory Poems or Texts of Ifa, African Notes, 1: 3, pp. 6–12.

Abimbola W. 1965a The Ese of Ifa. African Notes, 2: 3, pp. 12–16.

Abimbola W. 1965b The Place of Ifa in Yoruba Traditional Religion, African Notes, 2, pp. 3–4.

Abimbola W. 1965c Yoruba Oral Literature, African Notes, 2: 3, pp. 12–17.

Abimbola W. 1967 Ifa Divination Poems as Sources for Historical Evidence, Lagos Notes and Record, 1: 1, pp. 17–26.

Abimbola W. 1968a Ifa as a Body of Knowledge and as an Academic Discipline, Lagos Notes and Records, 2: 1, pp. 30–40.

Abimbola W. 1968b Ifa as a Body of Knowledge and as an Academic Discipline: Comments on Chief Ayorinde's Observations, Lagos Notes and Records, 2: 2, pp. 67–68.

Abimbola W. 1968c The Second Odu of Ifa. Black Orpheus, 2: 2, pp. 7–12.

Abimbola W. 1971 Stylistic Repetition in Ifa Divination Poetry, Lagos Notes and Records, 3: 1, pp. 38–53.

Abimbola W. 1972 Ifa Divination Poetry and Coming of Islam into Yorubaland, Pan-African Journal, April.

Abimbola W. 1977 The Ifa Divination System. Nigeria Magazine, No. 122–123, pp. 35–76.

Abimbola W. 1983 Ifa as a Body of Knowledge and an Academic Discipline, Journal of Culture and Ideas, 1: 1, pp. 1–11.

Abimbola W. 1989a Ifa Oracle to Settle Tussls of Obas in Oyo State, Vanguard, p. 1, November 14.

Abimbola W. 1989b What My Critics Never Knew, Quality pp. 31–35 (Xmas Edition) (Ifa as collection of human stories).

Abiodun R. 1983 Identity and Artistic Process in the Yoruba Aesthetic Concept of Iwa, Journal of Culture and Ideas, 1: 1, pp. 13–30.

Adedeji J. A. 1970 The Origin of the Yoruba Mask Theatre; The Use of Ifa Divination Corpus as Historical Evidence, African Notes, VI: 1, pp. 70–86.

Adedeji W. 1986 Dokita Ba Ifa Mu'le (Orunmila Clinic General and Specialist Treatment), 28B Aiyetoro Street, Akure, Isokan, (Ikeja/Lagos), pp. 1–2.

Adelowo E. D. 1989 A Comparative Look at the Phenomenon of Divination as an Aspect of Healing Process in the Major Religions in Nigeria, (with emphasis on the Yoruba), Asia Journal of Theology, (Singapore), 31, pp. 206–226.

Adepegba C. O. 1984 The Essence and Art of Yoruba Sanctuary Pottery, Orita, XV: 2, pp. 71–86.

Adewale S. A. 1978 The Role of Ifa in the Work of 19th Century Missionaries, Orita, XII: 1, pp. 23–32.

Ajanaku F. 1967 Bi Orunmila ti se gba Ede l'odo Olodumare, Olokun, 7, pp. 38–39.

Ajayi J. F. A. and Ayandele E. A. 1974 Emerging Themes in Nigerian and West African Religious History, Journal of African Studies, 1: 1, pp. 1–39.

Akiwowo A. 1969 Observations on the Sociological Enterprise in Nigeria, Nigerian Opinion, 5, pp. 8–10.

Akiwowo A. 1983 Understanding Interpretative Sociology in the Light of Oriki Orunmila, Journal of Culture and Ideas, 1: 1, pp. 139–157.

Alade M. 1969 Ohun ti Ifa wi nipa Iwa, Olokun, 8, pp. 18–23.

Anon C. 1945 Message to all Ifaologists, Daily Service, (Lagos), p. 4, 29 March.

Anon C. 1984 Africans of Diaspora Gather at Ifa Festival, Sunday Concord, (Lagos), pp. 8–9, December 9.

Awolalu J. O. 1970 The Yoruba Philosophy of Life, Presence Africaine, 73, pp. 20–38.

Awolalu J. O. 1971 Cultic Functionaries in the Yoruba Traditional Religion, Journal of Religious Thought, 28: 2, pp. 85–94.

Awolalu J. O. 1973 Yoruba Sacrificial Practices, Journal of Religion in Africa, 5: 2, pp. 81–93.

Awolalu J. O. 1980 The Concept of Death and the Hereafter in Yoruba Traditional Religion, The Sierra-Leone Bulletin of Religion; N.S. 1, 25 ff.

Awolalu J. O. 1987 Scapegoatism in Yoruba Religion, Orita, XIX: 1, pp. 3–9.

Ayorinde J. A. 1968 If a as a Body of Knowledge: Observations, Lagos Notes and Records, II: 2, pp. 63–67.

Badejo P. A. 1980 Asa Ibile Yoruba (Culture of Yorubaland), Opera, Los Angeles, U.C.L.A., African Studies Centre Newsletter, 4, pp. 8–10.

Bamgbose A. 1976 Review of Ifa Divination by William Bascom, Journal of Historical Society of Nigeria, 2: 2, pp. 313–314.

Barber K. 1981 How Man Makes God in West Africa: Yoruba Attitudes towards the Orisa, Africa (London), 51: 3, pp. 724–745.

Bascom W. R. 1939 Ifa Divination: Comments on the Paper by J. D. Clarke, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, XIX, pp. 235–256.

Bascom W. R. 1941 The Sanctions of Ifa Divination, Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute, IXXI: 1/2, pp. 43–54.

Bascom W. R. 1942 Ifa Divination, Man, XIII, pp. 41–43.

Bascom W. R. 1943 Relationship of Yoruba Folklore to Divining, Journal of American Folklore, 56: 20, pp. 127–131.

Bascom W. R. 1944 The Sociological Role of the Yoruba Cult Group, American Anthropology, N.S. 1/2, pp. 1–75.

Bascom W. R. 1953 African Culture and the Missionary, Civilisations III, pp. 491–504.

Bascom W. R. 1961 Odu Ifa: The Order of the Figures of Ifa, (L'Ordre des Chiffres d'Ifa). Bull. IFAN, 23:B, 3/4, pp. 676–682.

Bascom W. R. 1966 Odu Ifa: The Names of the Signs, Africa, 36: 4, pp. 408–442. French Summary, 430–431.

Bascom W. R. 1969 Ifa Divination: Communication between Gods and Men in West Africa, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 575 pp.

Bascom W. R. 1982 Biography of Bascom, Journal of American Folklore, 95, pp. 465–467.

Bascom W. R. and McCleland E. M. 1966 Two Studies of Ifa Divination (Introduction by P. Morton Williams), Africa, 36: 4, pp. 406–431.

Boluade E. B. 1981 The Gods and Man in Yoruba Mythology, African Marburgensia, XX: 1, pp. 35–48. (Orunmila 41–44).

Clarke J. D. 1939 Ifa Divination, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, IXIX: 2, pp. 235–236.

Crawley D. and Dundes A. 1982 William Russell Bascom, 1912–1981, Journal of American Folklore, 95, pp. 465–467.

Davis S. 1955 Divining Bowls: Their Uses and Origin Some African Examples and Parallels from the Ancient World, Man, 55, pp. 132–135.

Dime C. A. 1981 Divination: The Penumbra of African Traditional Religion, Orita, XIV: 2, pp. 90–107.

Drewal H. J. 1987 Art and Divination among the Yoruba: Design and Myth, African Journal, 14: 2/3, (New York), pp. 139–156, illustrated.

Elebu-Ibon Y. 1983 Ifa-Olokun. Drama Series, Nigerian Television Authority, Ibadan.

Emezi H. 1979 A Select Periodical Bibliography on African Traditional Religion with Special Emphasis on Nigeria 1900–1970, A Current Bibliography on African Affairs, 12, pp. 329–339.

Epega D. O. 1935 Ifa, the Light of My Father, Nigerian Teacher, 5, pp. 11–14.

Fabunmi M. A. 1966 Notes on Ile-Ife, Nigeria Magazine, 100, pp. 400–404.

Fagbamigbe O. 1960 Ifa (Praise–Names), Olokun, 2, pp. 20–22.

Gbadamosi G. 1977 Odun Imale: Islam in Ifa Divination and the Case of Predestined Muslims, Journal of Historical Society of Nigeria, VIII: 4, pp. 77–93.

Hallgren R. 1988 The Good Things in Life. A study of the traditional religious culture of the Yoruba people. Plus Ultra, 198 pp. (Doctoral dissertation) Loberod, Sweden.

Kalous M. 1967 Ifa Divination, New Orient, 6, pp. 122–123.

Lambo T. A. 1978 Psychotherapy in Africa, Human Nature, 3.

Law R. 1976 Early Yoruba Historiography, History in Africa, 3, pp. 69–89 (Lijadu as an author of Yoruba Oral Literature Ifa, p. 76).

MacClean U. 1966 Hospitals or Healers?: An Attitude Survey in Ibadan, Human Organization, 25, pp. 13–39.

MacClean U. 1969 Traditional Healers and Their Female Clients in Respect of Nigerian Sickness Behaviour, Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, 10, pp. 172–186.

Makinde M. 1983 Immorality of Soul and the Yoruba Theory of Seven Heavens (Orun–Meje), Journal of Ideas and Culture, 1: 1, pp. 31–59.

McClelland E. M. 1966 The Significance of Number in the Odu of Ifa, Africa, 36: 4, pp. 421–431.

McClelland E. M. 1969 Ifa Divination by William Bascom: “Review,” Africa, XXXIX: 4, p. 427.

McGee A. 1983 Some Mathematical-Observations on Ifa, Journal of Culture and Ideas, 1: 1, pp. 95–114.

McKenzie P. R. 1971 Samuel Crowther's Attitude to Other Faiths during the Early Days, Orita, V: 1, pp. 3–17.

McKenzie P. R. 1976 Sango A Traditional Yoruba, Cult Group, Africana Marburgensia, IX: 1, pp. 3–33.

McKenzie P. R. 1976 The Yoruba Orisa Cults: Cosmology and Concepts of Deity, Journal of Religion in Africa, 8, pp. 189–207.

McKenzie P. R. 1981 Orisa Cults in Western Nigeria, 1846–1879 (The Evidence of Indigenous Pastor), Africana Marburgensia, XIV: 1, pp. 3–8.

McKenzie P. R. 1986 William Moore on a Case of Slave Raiding and Ifa in 1851, Orita, XVII: 2, pp. 68–77.

McKenzie P. R. 1987 The Phenomenology of Yoruba Religion, Africana Marburgensia, XX: 1, pp. 19–32.

Megroz R. L. 1947 Surveying the Mysteries of Yorubaland, West Africa, No. 1710, pp. 1137.

Moore W. 1951 Slave-Raiding and Ifa, Orita, 18: 2, pp. 68–77.

Morakinyo O. 1983 The Ayanmo Myth and Mental Health Care in West Africa, Journal of Culture and Ideas, 1: 1, pp. 61–92.

Morton-Williams P. 1956 The Atinga Cult among the Yoruba of South-Western Nigeria, Bulletin de L'IFAN, 18, pp. 315–334.

Morton-Williams 1964 An Outline of the Cosmology and Cult (Organization of Oyo Yoruba), Africa, 34: 3, pp. 243–261.

Morton-Williams 1966 Two Studies of Ifa Divination: Introduction to the Mode of Divination, Africa, 36: 4, pp. 406–408.

Odejide A. O. 1976 Traditional Healers and Mental Illness in the City of Ibadan, Journal of Black Studies, 12: 2, Berkeley, CA, pp. 195–205.

Ogunbowale S. 1960 Esu ati Ifa, Olokun, 2, pp. 1–8.

Ogunkoya O. 1949 Yoruba Ancient Religion and Mythology, Africanus, 1: 3, pp. 14–15, 30.

Ojo J. R. O. 1967 Examples of Yoruba Art: In the Institute of African Studies, University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Odu, 4: 1.

Ojo J. R. O. 1968 Ifa Divination Apparatus in the University of Ife Institute of African Studies Museum, Odu, 4: 2, pp. 52–53.

Ojo-Cole J. 1929 The Wisdom of My Forefathers, West African Students Union Journal, pp. 25–29.

Okuseinde J. 1905 African Village Life, Western Equatoria Africa, XI, pp. 9–11.

Olajubu O. and Ojo J. R. O. 1977 Some Aspects of Oyo Yoruba Masquerades, Africa, 47: 3, pp. 253–275.

Olatunji O. O. 1973a Iyere Ifa Yoruba Oracle Chant, African notes , I.A.S., Ibadan, 2: 7, pp. 69–86.

Olatunji O. O. 1973b West African Literature: Traditional Poetry, West African Journal of Education, XVII: 2, pp. 301–326.

Olatunji O. O. 1973c Yoruba Oral Poetry: The Feature Types, Spectrum, III, pp. 1–35.

Oyesakin A. 1982 The Image of Women in Ifa Literary Corpus, Nigeria Magazine, No. 141, pp. 16–23.

Oyesakin A. 1985 Women as Agent of Indiscipline in Yoruba Poetry, Nigeria Magazine, 53, pp. 38–43.

Park G. K. 1963 Divination and Its Social Contexts, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 93: 2, pp. 195–209.

Parrat J. K. 1969 Religious Change in Yoruba Society: A Test Case, Journal of Religion in Africa, (Leiden), pp. 113–128.

Parrat J. K. 1969 Syncretism in Yorubaland, a Religious or Sociological Phenomenon? Practical Anthropology, 16, pp. 109–113.

Parrinder E. G. 1960 The Religious Situation in West Africa, African Affairs, 59, pp. 38–42.

Peel J. D. 1967 Religious Change in Yorubaland, Africa, 37, pp. 292–306.

Peel J. D. 1968 Syncretism and Religious Change, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 10, pp. 121–141.

Prince R. H. 1961 The Yoruba Image of the Witch, Journal of Mental Sciences, 103, pp. 795–805.

Ryan P. J. 1980 Arise O God: The Problem of Gods in West Africa, Journal of Religion in Africa, XI: 3, pp. 161–171.

Soleye O. 1970 Observations on the Sociological Enterprise in Nigeria—Critique, Nigerian Opinion, 6: 1 & 2, pp. 12–15.

Thomas L. 1967 A Propose des Religions Negro-Africaines Traditionnelles, Afrique Documents, 93, pp. 219–255.

Tomori A. 1982 Religious Practices in Ibadan since 1893: A Historical Analysis, African Notes, IX: 1, pp. 35–44.

Verger P. 1966 The Yoruba High God: A Review of the Sources, Odu, 2, pp. 19–40.

Webster J. B. 1965 Christianity in Nigeria, Historia, 2: 1, pp. 48–55.

Williams D. 1964 The Iconology of the Yoruba, Edan Ogboni, Africa, 34, pp. 139–166.

Wyndham J. 1919 The Divination of Ifa Fragment, Man, 19, pp. 151–153.

Zuesse E. M. 1975 Divination and Deity in African Religions, History of Religions, No. 15, pp. 158–182.