Introduction xi Preface: Forty Years in African Art and Life: Reflections on Ulli Beier xvii Olu Obafemi I. The Crisis of Yoruba Culture The Crisis of Yoruba Culture 3(24) Wole Soyinka Ulli Beier The Osun Grove of Oshogbo: Symbol of the Crisis of Yoruba Culture 27(10) Susanne Wenger Ulli Beier The Age of Miracles: Crises in Contemporary Yoruba Society 37(22) Wole Ogundele Ulli Beier II. Theater The Return of Shango: The Theater of Duro Ladipo 59(16) Ulli Beier The Yoruba Operatic Theater: A World in Search of Harmony and Social Order: Ladipo, Ogunde and Olaiya 75(28) Olu Obafemi Esu-Elegbara and the Carnivalesque 103(48) Femi Abodunrin III. Religion & Philosophy Orisha Liberates the Mind 151(12) Ulli Beier Wole Soyinka Sangodare Gbadegesin Ajala 163(12) Sangodare Susanne Wenger Death and the Kings Horseman 175(16) Wole Soyinka Ulli Beier IV. Art Yoruba Aesthetics 191(12) Roland Abiodun Ulli Beier To Organise is to Destroy: The Oshogbo Art School 203(20) Georgina Beier V. Yoruba Society Womanhood in Yoruba Traditional Thought 223(12) Sophie B. Oluwole Yoruba Women 235(12) Roland Abiodun Ulli Beier Yoruba Values 247(14) Roland Abiodun Ulli Beier Iconography of Order & Disorder: Conversation with Ulli Beier 261(30) Femi Abodunrin VI. Music The Music of Yoruba Gods 291(14) Akin Euba A Gift of the Gods: The Story of the Invention of the ``ODU Gongs and the Rediscovery of the Ancient Lithophone 305(14) Ademola Onibonokuta A Career in Music & Theater 319(12) Muraina Oyelami The Making of a Multicultural Musician 331(12) Wole Ogundele Femi Abodunrin VII. Colonialism Wole Soyinka on ``Identity 343(14) Ulli Beier The Making of a Philosopher 357 Ulli Beier Dr. Sophie Oluwole
