What the forest told me

Download or read book What the forest told me written by Ayo Adeduntan and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of Yoruba culture and performance tend to focus mainly on standardised forms of performance, and ignore the more prevalent performance culture which is central to everyday life. What the Forest Told Me conveys the elastic nature of African cultural expression through narratives of the Yoruba hunters' exploits. Hunters' narratives provide a window on the Yoruba understanding and explanation of their world; a cosmology that negates the anthropocentric view of creation. In a very literal sense, man, in this peculiar world, is an equal actor with animal and nature spirits with whom he constantly contests and negotiates space.