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Knowledge Systems & Worldview

Ìmọ̀ & Ìṣe

Yoruba as a civilisational knowledge system — herbal medicine and healing traditions, the methodology of divination, ethical philosophy and moral concepts, the traditional calendar, agricultural knowledge, and the political philosophy that governed one of Africa's most sophisticated urban societies.

Traditional Yoruba medicinal and ritual objects

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