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The Language of Gángan, A Yorùbá Talking Drum
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 It is widely known that Yorùbá drummers communicate through their native drums. This paper investigates the grammar of gángan, which belongs to a family of Yoruba drums called dùndún.
Samuel Kayode Akinbo
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ÌròyìnSpeech: A Multi-purpose Yorùbá Speech Corpus [PDF]
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2023 We introduce ÌròyìnSpeech corpus—a new dataset influenced by a desire to increase the amount of high quality, freely available, contemporary Yorùbá speech data that can be used for both Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) tasks ...
Tolúlopé Ògúnrèmí +4 more
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Varepsilon kú mask: Integrating Yorùbá cultural greetings into machine translation [PDF]
C3NLP, 2023 This paper investigates the performance of massively multilingual neural machine translation (NMT) systems in translating Yorùbá greetings (kú mask), which are a big part of Yorùbá language and culture, into English.
Idris Akinade +4 more
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yosm: A new yoruba sentiment corpus for movie reviews [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2022 A movie that is thoroughly enjoyed and recommended by an individual might be hated by another. One characteristic of humans is the ability to have feelings which could be positive or negative. To automatically classify and study human feelings, an aspect
Iyanuoluwa Shode +2 more
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Gender relations in Indigenous Yorùbá culture: questioning current feminist actions and advocacies
Third World Quarterly, 2023 Gender hierarchy and inequality are attributes of Western colonialism enforced in several colonised societies. Similarly, feminism (Western), as the antithesis of European sexism, has permeated colonised societies and has been assimilated without proper ...
Luqman Muraina +1 more
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Yoruba Culture in a Changing World
Yoruba Studies Review, 2023 Culture, a way of life, ideology, and philosophy of a people, has been a focal point of scholarly research in the fields of literature, language, history, and sociology, among others.
A. Adejumo
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Wandering through southwestern Nigeria: An inventory of Yoruba useful angiosperm plants
Heliyon, 2021 This paper is a compilation of all known uses of angiosperm plants by the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria. Information was gathered from the past experiences of authors and surveys of books, journal articles, dissertations (published and ...
A. Ajao, Y. O. Mukaila, S. Sabiu
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Urban renewal in Ibadan, Nigeria: World class but essentially Yoruba
African Affairs, 2021 Urban renewal is central to ‘world-class’ city aspirations on the African continent: demolitions and evictions exemplify the power of the state to restructure urban space, prioritizing elite forms of accumulation and enforcing aesthetic norms of ...
P. Roelofs
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Yorùbá Values and the Environment
Yoruba Studies Review, 2021 This essay deploys Yorùbá ontology, epistemology and axiology to construct a Yorùbá ecological philosophy, or ecosophy. It argues that in contrast with the Judeo-Christian tradition of environmental anthropomorphic domination as the destiny of humanity ...
J. Bẹwaji
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Olódumare and Esu in Yorubá Religious Thought
Yoruba Studies Review, 2021 Theological and philosophical debates on deities do not end easily; rather they open new vistas of understanding and further argumentation. In a previous work, I argued that there are two pairs of Olódumare and Es̩u in contemporary Yorubá religious ...
B. O. Igboin
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