A Quest for Meaning : Akinwumi Ogundiran's The Yoruba : A New History

                                                                                Abstract   An invitation to participate in a collaborative exploration, represented by the publication of a book of essays by various contributors,  of Akinwunmi Ogundiran's landmark work in history writing,  The Yoruba: A New History  (2020),  an amazing book at the intersection of  history as imaginative recreation, history as literature, history as archeological reconstruction, history as philosophical speculation, history as created through oral and textual archives, and other correlations synthesized to create a work  that is delightful to read in its narrative flow and expressive power, ideationally scintillating and philosophically provocative, a...