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Yoruba Books
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by (shelved 28 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.11 — 835 ratings — published 1938

by (shelved 7 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.44 — 34 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 7 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.24 — 499 ratings — published 1994

by (shelved 6 times as yoruba)
avg rating 3.89 — 87 ratings — published 1921

by (shelved 4 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.00 — 23 ratings — published

by (shelved 4 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.30 — 44 ratings — published 1993

by (shelved 3 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 1995

by (shelved 3 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.33 — 12 ratings — published

by (shelved 3 times as yoruba)
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published

by (shelved 3 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.25 — 122 ratings — published 1940

by (shelved 3 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.11 — 53 ratings — published 1994

by (shelved 3 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.52 — 52 ratings — published 1992

by (shelved 3 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.18 — 22 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.29 — 112 ratings — published 2025

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.62 — 21 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 3.87 — 55 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 3.64 — 339,652 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.20 — 10 ratings — published 1971

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.30 — 74 ratings — published 1949

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 1973

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.50 — 10 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.28 — 18 ratings — published 1995

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.32 — 73 ratings — published 1946

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.22 — 41 ratings — published 1978

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.32 — 19 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.35 — 34 ratings — published 2008

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.03 — 35 ratings — published 1973

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.58 — 12 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.18 — 11 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.57 — 7 ratings — published 1992

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.64 — 11 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 3.87 — 15 ratings — published 1976

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.00 — 22 ratings — published 1992

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.33 — 61 ratings — published 2001

by (shelved 2 times as yoruba)
avg rating 4.64 — 39 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as yoruba)
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 2006

by (shelved 1 time as yoruba)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2014

by (shelved 1 time as yoruba)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as yoruba)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2011

by (shelved 1 time as yoruba)
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 2001

by (shelved 1 time as yoruba)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as yoruba)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2010

by (shelved 1 time as yoruba)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published

by (shelved 1 time as yoruba)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published

by (shelved 1 time as yoruba)
avg rating 1.00 — 1 rating — published

by (shelved 1 time as yoruba)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2015

“In West African traditions, land belongs to the person who works it. Produce belongs to the person who grows it. Whatever is created belongs to the creators—not to the God that created them, and certainly not to the colonist or slavemaster.”
― Gods of the Flesh: A Skeptic's Journey Through Sex, Politics and Religion
― Gods of the Flesh: A Skeptic's Journey Through Sex, Politics and Religion

“Pronouns aside, there are also some languages that are essentially gender-free, containing very few words that make reference to a person’s “natural” gender at all. Yoruba, a language spoken in Nigeria, has neither gendered pronouns nor the dozens of gendered nouns we have in English, including son, daughter, host, hostess, hero, heroine, etc. Instead, the most important distinction in Yoruba is the age of the person you’re talking about. So, instead of saying brother and sister, you would say older sibling and younger sibling, or egbun and aburo. The only Yoruba words that make reference to a person’s gender (or sex, as it were) are obirin and okorin, meaning “one who has a vagina” and “one who has a penis.” So if you really wanted to call someone your sister, you would have to say egbon mi obirin, or “my older sibling, the one with the vagina.” When you get that specific, it makes our English obsession with immediately identifying people’s sexes seem just plain creepy.”
― Wordslut: A Hilarious and Informative Exploration of Gendered Language and Its Impact on Women
― Wordslut: A Hilarious and Informative Exploration of Gendered Language and Its Impact on Women