Ifá: An Account of a Divination System and Some Concluding Epistemological Questions

In Kwasi Wiredu (ed.), A Companion to African Philosophy. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 304–312 (2004)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Ifá Defined Ifá Divination The Process of Divination.

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African Epistemology.Paul Irikefe - forthcoming - The Blackwell Companion to Epistemology, Third Edition, Kurt Sylvan, Matthias Steup, Ernest Sosa and Jonathan Dancy (Eds.).

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