The History of the Yorubas: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate

by Samuel Johnson; edited by Obadiah Johnson

A Yoruba account of origins, kingdoms, language, customs and political history, centred on southwestern Nigeria. Written in its historical missionary and colonial-era context.

Chapters: 51
Language: English
First published: 1921

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Complete original English text first published in 1921, reproduced as OCR from the Boston Public Library scan of the 1960 C.M.S. reprint. The original author’s and editor’s prefaces, linguistic introduction, all 43 chapters, appendices and index are retained. This is an OCR transcription, with possible recognition errors, especially in Yoruba diacritics and tables; no modern translation or new foreword is included. Reprint-only bibliographic matter, repeated contents, running print headers and library marks are excluded. Text only, without image illustrations or the map. Within-word OCR NOT SIGN line-ending markers are rejoined for reading; these mechanical corrections are recorded in the source provenance.

Samuel Johnson (1846–1901); Obadiah Johnson (1849–1920). Digital scan and OCR: Boston Public Library, sponsored by Internet Archive, 2009.

The original English work was published in 1921, before 1931; its author and original editor or opening-poem contributor died more than 70 years ago. Only the original historical text is included. No modern translation, new introduction or illustration images are reproduced. This records the original-text basis and does not assert worldwide public-domain status.

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