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  • 2 - The Religious Setting

  • Marloes Janson
  • Book:
    Crossing Religious Boundaries
    Published online:
    16 September 2021
    Print publication:
    10 June 2021, pp 28-57

  • Summary

    To provide a historical, political, and socio-economic context for the emergence of the religious assemblages described in this book, Chapter 2 outlines the pluriform religious setting in south-western Nigeria, an area known as Yorubaland with Lagos as its economic, financial, and cultural hub. It compares the religious situation in Yorubaland with a ‘religious marketplace’, where religious shoppers pick and choose from the religious traditions that are available to them. I argue that if we aim to understand Muslim–Christian encounters in Nigeria beyond the ingrained conflict–cooperation continuum, we must pay attention to how Muslims and Christians actually live their religion and how their ways of living religion relate to each other. By analyzing Yorubaland as a religious marketplace and the Yoruba as religious shoppers, I show the limits of existing approaches that understand religious difference as a ground for religious violence and open an avenue for a more nuanced analysis of interreligious encounters.

  • 19 - Introduction:

  • from Part Four - Slavery Observed: European Travelers’ Accounts
  • Edited by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Cornell University, New York, Martin A. Klein, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
    Published online:
    05 April 2013
    Print publication:
    13 May 2013, pp 213-213

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on slave proverbs and has three goals. First, it seeks to validate proverbs as a source of data on slavery. Second, the chapter considers how slavery is memorialized across generations. Third, given that slave proverbs remain popular several decades after the legal abolition of slavery, it establishes the continued salience of slave origins and uses this to modify certain received ideas about the institution. The chapter provides an overview of slave-related conflicts in Yorubaland, and examines some slave proverbs and their (possible) origins, use, and meaning. Owe (proverb) is a Yoruba oral literal and figurative tradition whose full meaning is subject to translation and unpacking. Slavery in Yorubaland played an important role in Yoruba state formation and administration. Slaves functioned as administrators in the Oyo kingdom and were a powerful force in supervising provincial chiefs.