| Look at a few
websites that deal with this culture and choose one or two that have images,
sounds or text that you think are useful for preparing your presentation.
Before your presentation make a summary on a poster or a sketch of the
Yoruba creation myth.
Choose one
of the following exercises:
1. Find out what
a "shrine" is, and how they tend to be used. Choose a Yoruba
god and design a shrine with typical art forms to honor this god. Make
it clear which god you have chosen and why you have chosen this god.
During the presentation explain why your shrine looks the way it does
and what role this god plays in the Yoruba creation myth.
or
2. The Yoruba
traditionally had a number of religious traditions, such as: a) nightly
gatherings that were essential to honor Ogun, the god of iron and war;
b) the possibility to marry more than one person; and c) burying the
dead in the house. Half of your group are British colonialists and the
other half are traditional Yoruba. Invent a short play in which a confrontation
takes place between the British and the Yoruba (The British prohibit
these ancient traditions and the Yoruba attempt to defend them).
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