Sixteen Great Poems of IfaSixteen Great Poems of If is a book that provides knowledge on sixteen long poems from the If literary corpus that serve as the most important genres of Yorub oral tradition. The work is a meticulous effort of the author to preserve, publicize and promote the outstanding ingredients of Yorb culture. The Yorub people consider If as the great authority on mythology, history and philosophy, and indeed an unwritten textbook of Yorb culture hence, this