Western Education and Its Effects on Yoruba Social Institutions: Yoruba Religious Education as Case Study

Concepts and Theories on Women in Yoruba Religious Sphere

My concern in this work is to analyze the interplay of gender and power relations in the Yoruba religious sphere. The work examines the status and role of women in Yoruba religion, social structures, liturgical practices, and rituals. In addition, it attempts an appraisal of the place of women in Yoruba Christian tradition, especially as this concerns gender and power relations. My aim is to pu...

A Philosophical Examination of the Traditional Yoruba Notion of Education and its Relevance to the Contemporary African Quest for Development

This paper undertakes a philosophical investigation of the implications of the traditional Yoruba understanding of education for the contemporary African quest for development. The paper argues that the Yoruba conception of education is marked by the underlying philosophical principles of functionalism, moralism and progressivism. These principles, the paper contends, are of great relevance to ...

Yoruba Vowel Elision and Compounding

Ere Ibeji: Yoruba Twin Worship

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...