Yoruba

Understanding how human beings constitute order to affect productive ways of life is one of the central concerns of scholars. This study examines why three Yoruba communities of Nigeria---Ile-Ife, Ibadan and Abeokuta---differ in the extent to which their diverse groups of Yoruba…

This phenomenological study examined Nigerian Yoruba immigrant parents' perception regarding how acculturation has affected their child rearing practices and beliefs. The purpose of this study was to examine the lived experiences of Yoruba immigrants in reference to their child …

Contextualization has been a major theological pursuit in Africa in general and Nigeria in particular. This concern is born out of the necessity to integrate Christianity into African life and culture. Although the concept has taken root in theology, liturgy, and missiology in N…

Using a combination of oral traditions and written sources, this work reconstructs the history of Owo, a frontier Yoruba kingdom in southwestern Nigeria, from about the 12th century to the 20th century. One of a number of kingdoms springing up in this forest country in the 11th …

This research investigates how visual arts are used to engage dictatorial and ineffectual governments. It examines the traditional and contemporary manifestations of parody of power in Yoruba art from the pre-colonial to the postcolonial period of Nigerian history. It argues tha…

The aim of this study is to develop standards for articulation in Yoruba. This pilot study aims to determine whether the Mayaki Articulation Test for Yoruba (MATY) is an effective assessment tool for evaluating articulation in children who speak Yoruba. Participants will respond…

Why is bone sometimes used instead of ivory in Yorùbá carving? Bone objects are often mistaken for ivory, which is not surprising since the two materials look similar, although they are not identical. During interviews with Yorùbá practitioners carried out in Nigeria in the summ…

Yorùbá, has, for the most part, been analyzed by earlier grammarians from the perspective of English, thus leading to an English-oriented analysis of the language. This study presents a strictly aspect-based analysis of Yorùbá and its application to Tùtúolá's work and Nigerian E…

This work is an analysis of the relation of environment to culture, and in presenting this interaction, the study uses examples of material abstract and spiritual forms and shows how environment affects or modifies cultural norms and practices. This study presents and explains a…

The issue of how immigrant populations combine traditional and Western health beliefs and practices has not been given due attention. Hence, this qualitative research study of Yoruba immigrants, an ethnic group from south-western Nigeria, living in the Philadelphia, PA-Wilmingto…

This dissertation provides a political, cultural, and social history of central Nigeria. The time frame spans from the initial arrival of hunting, farming and fishing communities in the fourth millennium BCE until the nineteenth century CE. This work differs from other histories…

Lymphoblastoid cell line models in pharmacogenomics are a vital discovery tool and can be used to discover pharmacogenomic markers for clinical evaluation. In some cases, LCLs are used in discovery work; however, LCLs also provide a model system to manipulate gene expression to …

The dùndún, or "talking drum," of southwestern Nigeria is a versatile speech surrogate used to reproduce the tones and inflections of the Yorùbá language. Through their daily recitations of history and oral literature, dùndún musicians have for centuries played an integral role …

From the Horn of Africa, to the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the outer reaches of the African continent, conflict, civil war, and coup d'états have dominated Africa for nearly a century. These violent episodes stifle development, hinder the accumulation of capital (physical…

This study examines the phenomenon of servant leadership in the Nigerian context. It sought to understand the phenomenon from the lived experiences of leaders of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and private organizations in Ibadan and Lagos in the Southwest region, particula…

This dissertation is based on ethnographic research on the performance of life ceremonies among Yoruba migrants living in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. It focuses on child naming, marriage, and landmark birthday celebrations in which I have participated between 2006 and 2…

African Americans have historically turned to African philosophy and practice as a way of shaping and enhancing their artistic work. From the use of a generic African setting as a backdrop to Bert Williams' and George Walker's turn-of-the-century musicals, to the careful anthrop…

This is an ethnography of the Nike Centre for Art and Culture (NCAC) located in Osogbo, Nigeria. In 1983 Oyenike Monica Omoye Ojo Twins Seven Seven Olaniyi Davies-Okundaye, better known as Nike and already internationally known for her batik art work, established the centre to t…

In the Yoruba-speaking Shabe region which spans the border of the Republic of Benin and Nigeria, the changing historical constraints and political economy of the borderland intersect with constructions of identity and ideologies of gender in complex ways. Informal trade across t…

For the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria, aesthetics is inextricable from ethics. But the objects that have been discussed under the privileged banner of Yoruba art history can not contend with the full range of Yoruba aesthetic practice. In Yoruba culture the beautiful obj…