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West Africa

The Atlantic coast and hinterland of West Africa. Ifá, cowrie currency, and later Atlantic trade meet here without becoming one story.

West Africa

Atlantic trade appears in West Africa.
The trade’s African shore is West Africa. Cowrie money is one instrument of that traffic.
from Jan Hogendorn and Marion Johnson · The Shell Money of the Slave Trade, 1986
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Yoruba culture · West Africa

Yoruba culture appears in West Africa.
Yoruba-speaking communities are of West Africa. Geography, not a world-spirit.
from William Bascom · Ifa Divination, 1969
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sources

The Shell Money of the Slave Trade · Jan Hogendorn and Marion Johnson
Jan Hogendorn and Marion Johnson, The Shell Money of the Slave Trade.
Ifa Divination · William Bascom
William Bascom, Ifa Divination: Communication between Gods and Men in West Africa.