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The concept of monotheism in the Book of Proverbs and an African (Yoruba) perspective
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2022 The uniqueness of the Book of Proverbs among other wisdom books is incontestable because it uses הוהי as the name of God. Its regular use of the name means that the Book is concerned about God’s monotheism. The mention of that proper name (הוהי) 94 times
David T. Adamo
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METAPHORISATION OF WOMEN IN YORUBA PROVERBS: A FEMINIST CRITICAL ANALYSIS
European Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics Studies, 2022 Studies on conceptual metaphors in gender-based proverbial discourses have gained much scholarly attention in linguistic studies. In spite of this, conceptual metaphorisations in gendered Yoruba proverbs still remain under-researched. This study seeks to
Adetutu Aragbuwa, S. A. Omotunde
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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. Mukaila, S. Sabiu
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Revista Colombiana de Antropología, 2023 Este artículo contribuye a los estudios sobre la epistemología del islam en la región -y los repiensa- al explorar de qué modo este último transfundió elementos de conocimiento esotérico y de resistencia, simbólica y práctica, a una parte de la comunidad
Antonio de Diego González
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Song Melody and Speech Tone Conflict in Translated Yorùbá Christian Hymns
Yoruba Studies Review, 2022 This article engages song melody and speech tone conflict in translated Yorùbá Christian hymns between the late 19th and early 20th century. In their effort to make early Yorùbá Christian converts sing Christian hymns in the church, European missionaries
T. Owoaje, T. Adegbola
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ANALYTICAL RESULTS OF PROTON-INDUCED X-RAY EMISSION (PIXE) PROBE OF YORUBA POTTERY OBJECTS [PDF]
European Journal of Materials Science and Engineering, 2023 Two hundred and sixteen (216) Yoruba ceramic (pottery) objects in Ita Yemoo Museum collection, Ile-Ife, Nigeria were examined; a sample size of twenty–four (24) pottery objects, ten per cent (10%) of the pottery selected using systematic random sampling ...
Olufemi Joseph OLALEYE-OTUNLA +4 more
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Pronouns in Arigidi: A Syntactic Analysis
Linguistic Discovery, 2021 This study examines pronouns in Arigidi (a little studied) speech form with the aim of gaining an insight into their forms, structure and function in line with the classification of traditional ...
Boluwaji Oshodi, Bolanle Foluke Adekeya
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International Workshop/Conference on Parsing Technologies, 2021 This paper describes a methodology for syntactic knowledge transfer between high-resource languages to extremely low-resource languages. The methodology consists in leveraging multilingual BERT self-attention model pretrained on large datasets to develop
Cheikh M. Bamba Dione
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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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Evil forces and shirk among the Yoruba Muslims in Nigeria with special reference to Ilorin city [PDF]
, 2009 The bedrock of Islam is the belief in the absolute unity of Allah, to declare it orally and back it up with deeds and practices. Any other belief, saying or action which negates the oneness of Allah is termed as shirk, associating partners with Allah. As
Oloruntele, Oladimeji Abdulganiy
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