Joel E. Tishken is Assistant Professor of African and World History at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington.

Toyin Falola is Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at The University of Texas, Austin. He has edited The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World (IUP, 2005) and Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora (IUP, 2007).

Akintunde Akinyemi is Associate Professor of Yoruba Language and Literature in the Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He is author of Yoruba Royal Poetry: A Socio-Historical Exposition and Annotated Translation.

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction / Joel E. Tishken, Tóyìn Fálolá, and Akíntúndé Akínyemí

Part 1. Defining Sàngó in West Africa

2. The Place of Sàngó in the Yorùbá Pantheon / Akíntúndé Akínyemí

3. The Practice and Worship of Sàngó in Contemporary Yorùbáland / Arìnpé Gbekelólú Adéjùmo

4. Sàngó's Eerìndínlógún Divinatory System / George Olúsolá Ajíbádé

5. Yorùbá Thunder Deities and Sovereignty: Ará versus Sàngó / Marc Schiltz

Part 2. Representations of Sàngó in Oral and Written Popular Cultures

6. Sàngó and the Elements: Gender and Cultural Discourses / Diedre L. Bádéjo

7. Reconfiguration of Sàngó on the Screen / Dúrótoyè A. Adélékè

8. Art in the Service of Sàngó/ Stephen Folárànmí

9. The Ambivalent Representations of Sàngó in Yorùbá Literature / Akíntúndé Akínyemí

Part 3. Sàngó in the African Diaspora

10. The Cultural Aesthetics of Sàngó Africanization / Kamari Maxine Clarke

11. Wither Sàngó? An Inquiry into Sàngó's "Authenticity" and Prominence in the Caribbean / Stephen D. Glazier

12. Xangô in Afro-Brazilian Religion: "Aristocracy" and "Syncretic" Interactions / Luis Nicolau Parés

13. The Literary Manifestation of Xangô in Brazil: Esmeralda Ribeiro's

"A procura de uma borboleta preta" / Laura Edmunds

14. Drums of Sàngó: Bàtá Drum and the Symbolic Reestablishment of Oyo in Colonial Cuba, 1817-1867 / Henry B. Lovejoy

Part 4. The Voices of Sàngó Devotees

15. Sàngó beyond Male and Female / Olóyè Aìná Olomo

16. Searching for Thunder: A Conversation about Changó / Michael Atwood Mason and Ernesto Pichardo

List of Contributors

Bibliography

Index