Word: yorubas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yorubaphile, and that's complicated, lifetime study--it's not like a song by Public Enemy. It's a language that's two thousand years old that's becoming one of the leading languages in Africa. Now there's a movement in Nigeria to restore Yoruba to the curriculum. So this is a language that's going to become a language of trade in Africa. It seems to me that if someone wants to really know the psychology and the world view of most of our ancestors who came from West Africa, one should delve into it. I think what...
Santeria is a mixture of Roman Catholic and Yoruba (West African) religious practices. Its main focus is the worship of saints, who are equated with Yoruba deities. As in Catholicism, one prays to these saints to intercede in a crisis. Unlike Catholics, however, the santeros invoke their saints by sacrificing an animal as an offering. Ritual sacrifice also plays a role in priests' ordination rites...
...sacrifice was central to Judaism until the Jerusalem Temple was destroyed 19 centuries ago, continues as an annual ritual performed by all Muslims, and has been a part of African animistic religions as far back as records exist. Santeria's spiritual roots reach back 4,000 years to the Yoruba tribe in southern Nigeria. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the slave communities of Cuba blended worship of Roman Catholic saints with their ancient African rites...
...McCarthyism, the new fundamentalism, even the new totalitarianism -- take your choice. According to its critics, who include a flock of tenured conservative scholars, multiculturalism aims to toss out what it sees as the Eurocentric bias in education and replace Plato with Ntozake Shange and traditional math with the Yoruba number system. And that's just the beginning. The Jacobins of the multiculturalist movement, who are described derisively as P.C., or politically correct, are said to have launched a campus reign of terror against those who slip and innocently say "freshman" instead of "freshperson," "Indian" instead of "Native American...