Prefix oni- in Yoruba

Ere Ibeji: Yoruba Twin Worship

Enteric fever in young Yoruba children.

Ninety-seven Nigerian children under 5 years of age had typhoid or paratyphoid fever proved by blood culture. The presented with fever, anaemia, gastrointestinal or neurological disturbances, and typhoid and paratyphoid appeared clinically indistinguishible. In this holoendemic malarial area, malaria was the most important differential diagnosis, and may have contributed to the concomitant anae...

Voicing of Labiovelar Stops in Yoruba

This production study investigates the correlates of voicing in initial /b, k, , b, kp/ stops in Yoruba. We found “voiceless” /kp/ to be “partially voiced”. It has prevoicing, but at the same time it behaves like a typical voiceless stop in raising the f0 of the following vowel, and in having the tendency to decrease surrounding vowel durations. /kp/ and /b/ are furthermore distinguishe...

Yoruba Vowel Elision and Compounding

Psychiatric Disorder among the Yoruba

The Cornell University Programme in Social Psychiatry is undertaking an investig^ among the Yoruba, a tribe numbering five million and inhabiting Western Nigeria. "} , will be documented in two volumes, of which this first confines itself mainly to descritf" the purposes and methods of the project. Among the authors is Dr. T. Adeoye Larn K Professor of Psychiatry, University College, Ibadan, wh...