Oyotunji
32°36′34.51″N 80°48′10.24″W / 32.6095861°N 80.8028444°W Oyotunji African Village is a village located near Sheldon, Beaufort County, South Carolina that was founded by Oba Efuntola Oseijeman Adelabu Adefunmi I in 1970.[1][2]
Oyotunji village is named after the
Harlem, New York to its present location in 1960.[4][5][6] During the 1970s, the era of greatest population growth at the village, the number of inhabitants grew from 5 to between 200 and 250.[7][8][9] The population is rumored to fluctuate between 5 and 9 families as of the last 10 years. It was originally intended to be located in Savannah, Georgia
, but was eventually settled into its current position after disputes with neighbors in Sheldon proper, over drumming and tourists.
Since Adefunmi's death in 2005, the village has been led by his son, Oba Adejuyigbe Adefunmi II. The village is constructed to be analogous to the villages of the traditional Yoruba city-states in modern-day Nigeria, although modernization of the village's public works have been carried out under Adefunmi II.[citation needed]
References
- ^ OCLC 7385565477.
- OCLC 166379802.
- OCLC 5625761.
- OCLC 925262399.
- OCLC 44727724.
- OCLC 941224974.
- ^ Goldstein 1978.
- ^ Hunt 1980.
- ^ McCray 2002.
Sources
- Goldstein, Joshua (1978-05-27). "A King in South Carolina". The New Republic. Vol. 18. OCLC 67075715.
- Hunt, Carl M (1980) [1977]. Oyotunji village : the Yoruba movement in America (Thesis). Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International. OCLC 38348866.
- McCray, Kenja R (2002). Black gods, Black power : life at Oyotunji Village 1970-1990 (Thesis). Clark Atlanta University. OCLC 875481079.
Further reading
- Capone, Stefania (2005). Les Yoruba du nouveau monde : religion, ethnicité et nationalisme noir aux Etats-Unis (in French). Paris: Karthala. pp. 151–178. OCLC 607667095.
- Clarke, Kamari Maxine (2004). Mapping Yorùbá networks : power and agency in the making of transnational communities. Durham: Duke University Press. OCLC 652107996. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
- Davis, Rod; Ebrary, Inc (2000). American voudou : journey into a hidden world. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press. pp. 177-190. )
- Lefever, Harry G. (2000). "Leaving the United States". Journal of Black Studies. 31 (2). SAGE Publications: 174–195. S2CID 143803474.
- Ogunyemi, Yemi D, ed. (2004). Literatures of the African diaspora. Gival Press. OCLC 55952884.
- An Oral History of the West African Village That Has Been in South Carolina for Four Decades
- Ile Ifa Jalumi - Oyotunji Outpost
- RoadsideAmerica.com article
- Òyötùnjí Village: Making Africans in America - Anthropology Master's Thesis by Antionette B. Brown-Waithe
- Welcome to the Kingdom Oyotunji African Village via Internet Archive
- About Oyotunji African Village
- "Against the Odds, A 40-Year Old West African Village in South Carolina Has Thrived"