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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Domestic Violence (DV) is a precarious social problem found across all strata of society
worldwide. A major effort to curb this menace was the criminalisation of domestic
violence and the involvement of police in handling ...
Ishor divination practice is the central organising principle of life among the Tiv people of northcentral Nigeria. Existing studies on it however, have focused on its roles in Tiv religion, culture
and traditional medicine; ...
Kpakpa-jiala is a traditional music performed as part of celebration to honour departed elders with deserving traditional burial rites of Benin migrant community inItaogbolu, Ondo State, Nigeria. Existing studies on funeral ...