In The Yorubas section of the book, Courlander makes another failed attempt to give a too brief historical Blackground of the Yoruba speaking people. Actually, there are no people in Afrika known as the Yoruba. That is a european misnomer. What an insult. The portuguese and any other colonizers are irrelevant and insignificant in the cosmogony and Asilic structure of Afrikan people.
Further insult is manifested in the title.
Gender issues are not defined for Afrikans in the eurocentric construct. Afrikan women are the primogenial birds of paradise, the original guardian angels, the ethereal waters, the womb of the universe that brings forth creation. Thus no text written with an Afrikan centered perspective would be titled for only one gender. Courlander discusses the continuity of Afrikan genesis and ritual from Afrikans in Afrika to Afrikans in the Diaspora. Such experiences cause Afrikan people to reflect upon the cosmogony, life and the universe.