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2012 J.F. Odunjo Lecture, University of Ibadan, May 7, 2012

Written  in  an  erudite  yet  accessible  style,  this  lecture begins with a moral allusion to a historical Yoruba curse as attributed to the Awole story in Johnson’s The History of the Yorubas in order to explicate the enslavement, fragmenta-tion, and marginalization of an otherwise royal people. Far from dwelling on this mortal curse, it examines the after-math of the Atlantic Yoruba dispersal, the renovation and regeneration  of  the  ancestral  Yoruba  diaspora,  cultural diaspora, as well as the continuities of “kingships” and kin-ships  across  the  Atlantic  World.    From  the  discussion  of history; memory; Yorubaism; resistance and nationalism; regenerative  religious  traditions;  new  Yoruba  diaspora cultures  and  complex  modernity;  to  Yoruba  immigrants and  the  role  of  Nollywood  in  the  appropriation  and  cri-tique of culture, the thesis remains cogent and consistent: an imagined Yoruba future must take cognizance of com-parativism and contrasts as Yoruba insiders and outsiders within  cultures  formulate  and  foster  a  dialogue  of  minds in  order  to  create  a  lasting  legacy  of  Yoruba  humanity and  progress  well  beyond  the  confines  of  southwestern Nigeria  and  even  beyond  such  diasporic  spaces  as  Cuba, Trinidad,  Haiti,  Brazil,  and  the  United  States  towards  a new  dispensation  of  engaging  globalization  with  a  viable 

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