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DIED. AMOS TUTUOLA, 77, Nigerian novelist who foraged into Yoruba folklore for his grisly tales; in Ibadan, Nigeria. In prose unfettered by grammatical conventions, Tutuola depicted mythic odysseys. In The Palm-Wine Drinkard, a wino travels to the afterworld and battles a horned monster to appease his hellish thirst...
While it is certainly regrettable that several thousand dollars worth of Yoruba objects were taken from the Peabody Museum last week it is equally regrettable that no one bothered to verify the most basic of facts in Victor T. Chen's story ("African Artifacts Stolen from Peabody Museum," news story, Apr. 26, 1995). The Yoruba students who were in my African Art sections (Literature and Arts B-27) last semester may be more than a bit surprised to find that they "once lived in what is now Liberia and Nigeria. "First, the Yoruba continue to live in Nigeria, and from...
Carved heads, axeheads and other tools of the Yoruba tribe, an African tribe that once lived in what is now Liberia and Nigeria, were taken from their display case on the fourth floor Teaching Display Gallery, Johnson said...
Conversely, it seems that countries often show a dramatic drop in their birthrate not because of prosperity but because of a decrease in people's sense of well-being. For instance, a study of Nigerian communities revealed that bad economic times in recent years caused young Yoruba families to turn to contraception even though infant mortality was rising -- a development that directly contradicts conventional wisdom about the demographic transition...
Through July 3. African and Oceanic Sculpture: Treasures from a Private Collection. The objects are mostly wood and terracotta, ranging from a miniature wooden mask from Zaire to a monumental yoruba veranda post from Nigeria...