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This poetry edition brings the reader a repertoire of magical evocations, startling imagery, mythological allusions, reclamations, outrages, reasoning and wisdom, all against the backdrop of Yor b  poetry which is one of the world's most fascinating literary traditions. African Poems Volume One: A Praise Anthology to Yor b  Orishas, Rituals, Traditions and Wisdom will delight the readers with its wealth of information on Yor b   r ṣ  religious beliefs that is presented in a spirited poetic form. This Anthology contains eight chapters and 317 poems in total. Chapter one, being the most extensive one, entitled: Praise to the Orishas, provides portraits of poetic praises, based on traditional Yor b  Or k  to different  r ṣ , divinities of the Yor b  pantheon. The following seven themed chapters, Divine Metamorphosis, Power and Traditions, Ritual Rising, Awaking the Spirits, Of Gods and Man, Call of the Gods and Reclaiming the Soil, contain sixteen poems each, embracing a variety of themes concerning different aspects of Yor b  traditional culture, rituals, traditions, social aspects and wisdom, written mostly, in free style poetry. 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