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Political Communication and the Nigerian Democratic Experiment: Critical Insights from Yorùbá Philosophy

open access: yesYoruba Studies Review, 2021
Nigeria’s political sphere is fraught with violence, electoral frauds, unfulfilled promises and negligence on the part of the ruling class, hence political communication in Nigeria have been faced with hostility from electorates spurred by public ...
S. Omotoso
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Palace Courtyards in Iléṣà: A Melting Point of Traditional Yorùbá Architecture

open access: yesYoruba Studies Review, 2021
The Yorùbá courtyard is an important architectural space in traditional Yorùbá architecture that has not received adequate scholarly attention. This paper examines the courtyards in the palace of certain chiefs and Ọwá Obòkun in Iléṣà, in southwest ...
Stephen Fọlárànmí, B. Ademuleya
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La sombra de los ¡males. Conocimiento esotérico y resistencia como contribución islámica a la afroepistemología de América Latina

open access: yesRevista 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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The Nexus between Performance, Aesthetics and Philosophical Motifs in Indigenous Festivals / Yerli Festivallerinde Performans, Estetik ve Felsefi Motifler Arasındaki Bağlantı [PDF]

open access: yesFolklor/Edebiyat, 2023
The idea of expediency that is identified with the two mythical sisters that were abducted during the era of slavery and slave trade may have been constructed to sensitise folks about the need to be prepared at all times and probably informed by their
Segun Omosule
doaj   +1 more source

Restoration and Representation of Yoruba Culture in the Lion and the Jewel: A Stylistic Study [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology
This study examines the stylistic restoration and representation of Yoruba culture in Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel, focusing on how linguistic choices serve as vehicles for cultural preservation and dramatic expression. Through detailed analysis
Paul Nepapleh Nkamta   +1 more
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Pronouns in Arigidi: A Syntactic Analysis

open access: yesLinguistic 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
doaj   +1 more source

Principle of Utis Possidetis and challenges of sitting at the frontier in Africa: The Yoruba in the Old Ilorin province and the politics of identity and belonging in post-colonial Nigeria

open access: yesContree, 2019
For communities that sit at the fringe of ethnic, cultural and linguistic divide, the twin questions of identity and belonging often remain issues of concern. The remoteness of such communities from the mainstream of sociocultural and political processes,
L. Saka, L. Amusan
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The Survival of the Yorùbá Healing Systems in the Modern Age

open access: yesYoruba Studies Review, 2021
This study investigates the philosophy and tradition of the Yorùbá healing system and the reasons for its survival into the modern age. The introduction of western-style healthcare by missionaries—which became consolidated under colonial rule, from any
I. Paul
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Èdè Àyàn: The Language of Àyàn in Yorùbá Art and Ritual of Egúngún

open access: yesYoruba Studies Review, 2021
 Kò séní m’èdè Àyàn   Bí ení mú kò ̣ ̣ǹgó ̣ è ̣ lówọ́  No one understands the language of Àyàn Better than the drummer who holds the gong in his hand Yorùbá maxim From the Yorùbá oral historical, mythological, and ontological, abstract lines of ...
O. Famule
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Development of a Recurrent Neural Network Model for English to Yorùbá Machine Translation

open access: yesInternational Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2020
This research developed a recurrent neural network model for English to Yoruba machine translation. Parallel corpus was obtained from the English and Yoruba bible corpus.
Adebimpe O. Esan   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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