Tolagbe Ogunleye
Biographic Data
| ID | 653723 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tolagbe Ogunleye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tolagbe |
| FAMILY NAME | Ogunleye |
| SIGNATURE | OGUNLEYE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Àrokò, Mmomomme Twe, Nsibidi, Ogede, and Tusona
For approximately 150 years, Africans fled enslavement on Southern plantations and lived autonomously in Florida, using discrete African art forms, traditions, and sensibilities in their modes of communications, rituals, subsistence strategies, and battle plans to prosper and achieve and sustain their freedom and autonomy. This article reconstructs the ways cultural forms and practices, such as àrokò, nsibidi, tusona or sona (ideographic writing …
Dr. Martin Robison Delany, 19Th-Century Africana Womanist
Past and contemporary researchers' evaluations of Martin Robison Delany's (born May 6, 1812; died January 24, 1885) achievements are glowing and quite impressive. Scholars refer to him as a Renaissance Man who was able to cram at least a half dozen lifetimes into one (Clark, 1974, p. xxv). He was a dentist, writer, editor, medical doctor, theorist, abolitionist, explorer, scientist, philosopher, diplomat, civil rights activist, ethnologist, and p…
African American Folklore
African American folklore offers researchers an invaluable framework for insight into the history and worldview of African Americans. Folklore, also called folktales, includes myths, storytelling, recollections, ballads, songs, rap, and other orally transmitted lore. African American folklore, though originally transmitted verbally, assumed a written form in the works of writers such as Charles Chestnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and …
The Self-Emancipated Africans of Florida
Determined to no longer be held against their will, untold numbers of stalwart Africans emancipated themselves from their enslavers living predominantly in the areas now known as Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, and Louisiana: They headed for the abandoned or remote areas in Florida to establish communities or take up residence in one of the autonomous settlements established by Africans who had previously fled. The flight of Africans…
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The Self-Emancipated Africans of Florida
Determined to no longer be held against their will, untold numbers of stalwart Africans emancipated themselves from their enslavers living predominantly in the areas now known as Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, and Louisiana: They headed for the abandoned or remote areas in Florida to establish communities or take up residence in one of the autonomous settlements established by Africans who had previously fled. The flight of Africans…
African American Folklore
African American folklore offers researchers an invaluable framework for insight into the history and worldview of African Americans. Folklore, also called folktales, includes myths, storytelling, recollections, ballads, songs, rap, and other orally transmitted lore. African American folklore, though originally transmitted verbally, assumed a written form in the works of writers such as Charles Chestnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and …
Dr. Martin Robison Delany, 19Th-Century Africana Womanist
Past and contemporary researchers' evaluations of Martin Robison Delany's (born May 6, 1812; died January 24, 1885) achievements are glowing and quite impressive. Scholars refer to him as a Renaissance Man who was able to cram at least a half dozen lifetimes into one (Clark, 1974, p. xxv). He was a dentist, writer, editor, medical doctor, theorist, abolitionist, explorer, scientist, philosopher, diplomat, civil rights activist, ethnologist, and p…
Àrokò, Mmomomme Twe, Nsibidi, Ogede, and Tusona
For approximately 150 years, Africans fled enslavement on Southern plantations and lived autonomously in Florida, using discrete African art forms, traditions, and sensibilities in their modes of communications, rituals, subsistence strategies, and battle plans to prosper and achieve and sustain their freedom and autonomy. This article reconstructs the ways cultural forms and practices, such as àrokò, nsibidi, tusona or sona (ideographic writing …
History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Autonomy (2 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Human settlement (2 works)