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 ...
In the past, housewives were anchors of Yòrùbá pre-marriage musicodynamic performances where the groom’s family members would be introduced and the bride price paid (ìdána). In contemporary era, Alága ìdúró and Alága ìjókòó ...
The inability of the Nigeria Police to adequately guarantee public safety led to the emergence of Informal Security Structures (ISS) in several neighbourhoods in Nigeria. These structures which are unconventional community ...
African art music is a genre by composers who have had the knowledge of western European music. It is often written in Western notation and performed to an enlightened listening audience that is excluded from the performance. ...