Ayomide Ogundele

Professor David Stoler

FIQWS HA23/HA24

1 November 2019

Abstract for Research Paper

The new villagers to arrive were horrified to witness the scene before them. Ogun told the newcomers that he was sorry, and he asked for forgiveness, in which some granted him forgiveness, and others couldn’t. Ogun then tells the people that if they ever need him, he will always be ready to help. Curses could be heard for miles on end. Ogun could not think of any other way to atone for his sins. Ogun is one of the many gods in the orisha religion, which is native to the Yoruba culture in the country of Nigeria. The story of Ogun may appear differently through different cultures and countries.

 This paper will argue the position of the Yoruba deity having a presence in other countries and cultures, it will do so by using evidence from “Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture(Vol. 3. )” by Brazeal Brian, to highlight the way religion has traveled to the Americas through the help of slave trade. Further it will discuss the Cuban culture and how it relates to the Yoruba deity using the article “Deterritorialization and Reterritorialization of the Orisha Religion in Africa and the New World (Nigeria, Cuba and the United States)” by Dianteill Erwan to elaborate on the different ways the orisha religion has influenced Cuban music art and culture. It will also use the narrative paper of Ogun written by Ayomide Ogundele to show one of the ways the story a god of the Yoruba deity has been passed down. “Ogun in Pre Colonial Yorubaland: A Comparative Analysis” by J. D. Y. Peel will dissect Ogun and many other orisha gods to further the understanding of the orisha religion. The article “Shifting Multicultural Citizenship: Trinidad Orisha Opens the Road” by Castor N. Fadeke, will be used to show the importance of the orisha in the country of Trinidad. It will also use to “The Orisha Religion In Trinidad” by Abc-Clio, to elaborate on the previously stated point. The point of view from a native of the country of Nigeria will be used to further explain the importance of the orisha religion in Nigeria. The point of this paper is to argue/show the importance of the Yoruba deity and orisha religion in many countries other than Nigeria. 

Reflection

Writing this piece was surprisingly easier than I expected. All I had to do was write what i was going to do with each of my source. Thanks to the peer review I was able to understand what I was missing in my draft. I found the abstract writing very useful  because it made me visualize what I was going to write in my paper, it gave me a visual structure. This amongst all things was entertaining and didn’t take any time at all to write. 

One of my strengths when writing this was being able to write my second paragraph. However, I had difficulty with the first paragraph because it had to be a pathos paragraph, so I just took a piece of my story and inserted it into their.