Recommended reading for adherents and Awos

Aboru aboye aboshishe,

on being asked by a fellow Awo, I compiled this list of recommended books. I've read all of these (some

better then others). This is by no means comprehensive, and I suspect I've overlooked some. Enjoy!

Marcos Ifalola Sanchez

• Olodumare: God in Yoruba Belief - E. Bolaji Idowu

• Fundamentals of the Yoruba Religion (Orisa Worship) - Chief Fama

• Yoruba Beliefs and Sacrificial Rites- J. Omósadé Awólàlú

• Practitioner's Handbook for the IFA Professional - Chief FAMA (Àìná Adéwálé-Somadhi)  (Awos only)

• Odun Ifa. Ifa Festival - Emanuel Abosede  (mainly for Awos)

• IFA: The Key to it's Understanding - Fasina Falade  (mainly for Awos)

• Ifa: An Exposition of Ifa Literary Corpus - Wande Abimbola  (mainly for Awos)

• IFA Divination Poetry - Wande Abimbola  (mainly for Awos)

• Yoruba Oral Tradition - Wande Abimbola

• Ifa Divination: Communication Between Gods and Men in West Africa - William Bascom

• Ifa: A Complete Divination - Ayo Salami  (mainly for Awos)

• Iyere Ifa (Tonal Poetry, the Voice of Ifa) An Exposition of Yoruba Divinational Chants - Chief Ifayemi

Elebuibon

• The Healing Power of Sacrifice - Chief Ifayemi Elebuibon  (mainly for Awos)

• Ifism: The Complete Work of Orunmila - C. OsamaroIbie (mainly for Awos)

• Iwe Odu Ifa - Chief Ifayemi Awopeju Bogunmbe (for Awos)

• A recitation of Ifa, oracle of the Yoruba - Judith Illsley Gleason, Awotunde Aworinde  (mainly for Awos)

• I HATE recommending anything that makes Niemark money, but this book had good translations: The

Sacred IFA Oracle - Afolabi A. Epega, Philip John Neimark  (mainly for Awos)

• Odu Ifa: The Ethical Teachings - Maulana Karenga

• Ewe: O uso das plantas na sociedade ioruba - Pierre Verger

• Orin Orisa: Songs for Selected Heads - John Mason

• Beads, Body, and Soul: Art and Light in the Yoruba Universe - Henry Drewal and John Mason

Idana fun orisa: Cooking for selected heads - John Mason and Gary Edwards

• Voodoo: Mounted by the Gods - Alberto Venzago (a view of "Fa" in benin)

• 1000+(African) Òrìsà Yorùbá Names - Chief Fama

• Fama's Ede Awo (Orisa Yoruba Dictionary) - Chief Fama

• Yoruba-English/English-Yoruba Modern Practical Dictionary - Kayode J. Fakinlede

•Je K`A So Yoruba (Yale Language Series) - Antonia Yetunde Folarin Schleicher

•Yoruba Proverbs - Oyekan Owomoyela