Diaspora’s reputation as an agent of homeland development through remittances has gained
unprecedented traction since the turn of the 21st century. The African Union’s declaration of
the diaspora as Africa’s sixth region ...
African festivals are often reconstructed in order not to lose them completely. Nta
hunting festival has undergone such reconstruction. Although existing studies have
mainly focused on the religious and cultural values ...
The denial of females or widows’ right to inheritance of real property on the intestacy of a
father or a husband in Imo state has been a matter of debates and litigations. Notwithstanding
the Supreme Court decision in ...
Wọ lé Ṣóyínká and Fẹ́mi Ọ̀ṣọ́fisan are two world-class dramatists whose works are
creative inventions depicting a wide range of human experiences before an audience.
Musical motifs are derived both from the internal ...
Marital conflict is a major social challenge cutting across Africa, Nigeria, and prevalent in
Ibadan locality. There are governmental and non-governmental mechanisms for its management
and resolution, however complainants ...
Social media, which refers to an online environment used for the purposes of mass collaborative
communication, where participants can create, post, rate, consume and share content without a
direct intermediary, have been ...
The construct of gender, its dimensions and the disposition of a people towards it, manifest in their cultural and oral traditions. The Ifá cultural practice is one of the enduring and respected legacies in Yorùbá land. ...
Much of the scholarship on Nollywood has focused on the films‘ preoccupation with
the occult, negative representation of women, shoddy plots, as well as generic
configurations. Also, there have been persistent propositions ...
Texts link up with one another for meaning-making in an intertextual manner. In the aftermath of
pristine orality, intertextuality often has implications, one of which is plagiarism. Previous
studies have examined the ...
Prayer Mountain (PM), commonly referred to as Orí-Òkè, is a known phenomenon among the
Yorùbá Christians in Southwestern Nigeria. Yorùbá Christians consider PM as a site to aid
contact with the Divine with a view to ...
Ishor divination practice is the central organising principle of life among the Tiv people of northcentral Nigeria. Existing studies on it however, have focused on its roles in Tiv religion, culture
and traditional medicine; ...
Domestic Violence (DV) is a precarious social problem found across all strata of society
worldwide. A major effort to curb this menace was the criminalisation of domestic
violence and the involvement of police in handling ...
Kpakpa-jiala is a traditional music performed as part of celebration to honour departed elders with deserving traditional burial rites of Benin migrant community inItaogbolu, Ondo State, Nigeria. Existing studies on funeral ...
Drums are diverse and are used in a variety of contexts in Yorùbá culture. Bẹ̀ mbé̩ , an outer-faced
cylindrical membrane drum nuanced by its symbolic spiritual identity, enlivens Yoruba religious
and semi-religious ...
The enthrallment with Jùjú music, a Yoruba musical genre, was buoyed by Nigeria’s oil boom
phenomenon in the 1970s. Existing studies on Nigerian popular music genres, especially the
Jùjú, have focused more on its ...
In many African societies, a premium is placed on having biological children as proof of
fertility. Couples unable to reproduce sometimes “harvest” babies from ‘’baby factory’’ a
term coined by the Nigerian media as a ...
Wọlé Ṣóyínká and Fémi ̣ Òṣ̣ ófisan are two world ̣ -class dramatists whose works are
creative inventions depicting a wide range of human experiences before an audience.
Musical motifs are derived both from the internal ...
Although marriage between men and women is a universal phenomenon, women usually
play a central role in relationship maintenance which often-times places a strain on them.
Existing studies have dealt with different ...
Marital conflict is a major social challenge cutting across Africa, Nigeria, and prevalent in Ibadan locality. There are governmental and non-governmental mechanisms for its management and resolution, however complainants ...
The Yorùbá traditional lamellophone known as àgídìgbo is a box-type thumb piano and a musical genre whose composition is richly crafted in Yorùbá philosophy and laden with proverbs and parables. Existing studies on àgídìgbo ...