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Eshu: Yoruba God, Powers, and the Imaginative Frontiers. Edited by Toyin Falola. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2013. Pp. xxiii, 392; 31 illustrations, notes on contributors, index. $60 paper.
Toyin Falola has coordinated nineteen essays into a richly textured discourse on Eshu, "the God without boundaries" (p. 3), by authors whose fields of expertise include anthropology, comparative religion, linguistics, history, philosophy, art history, and literature or who are religious practitioners. His contributors are primarily native Yoruba speakers who move easily between English, Nigeria's official language, and Yoruba-quoting relevant passages (always translating from the Yoruba) to develop their arguments. A number of the contributors teach in...