Abstract Urban renewal is central to ‘world-class’ city aspirations on the African continent: demolitions and evictions exemplify power of state restructure urban space, prioritizing elite forms accumulation enforcing aesthetic norms cleanliness, order modernity. The ubiquity world-class city-making has been taken by studies scholars as evidence leaders’ converging a unitary aspirational imagin...

Opa is an emblematic Yoruba sculptural verge and preserved transcendence expressional art amongst the social group in order to describe hierarchical structure ranking chiefs, religious cults’ priests/priestesses aged right. Significantly, time-scale conscious in-depth exploration of motifs on diverse verges artistic formats integrated have not been considered using deco-hierarchical structures ...

The orthographies of several languages, such as Yoruba, Arabic, Tshivenda, Ciluba, French, German, and Dutch, use diacritics. These diacritics pose an additional challenge to a character recognition system. Using diacritically-marked uppercase Yoruba letters as a case-study, this paper presents one strategy for addressing this problem. In particular, we present a system for the automatic classi...

Human societies utilize mollusks for myriad material and spiritual ends. An example of their use in a religious context is found in Brazil's African-derived belief systems. Candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian religion introduced during the 18th-19th centuries by enslaved Yoruba, includes various magical and liturgical uses of mollusks. This work inventoried the species utilized by adherents and to ana...

Studies on conceptual metaphors in gender-based proverbial discourses have gained much scholarly attention linguistic studies. In spite of this, metaphorisations gendered Yoruba proverbs still remain under-researched. This study seeks to fill the gap by exploring using frameworks. The data comprise 100 women. Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis guide analysis. an...

The phenomena of female and male collaboration or concurrence towards making a positive progressive impact in most environmental situations Yorùbá land cannot be over-emphasized. From published works literature other oral data, such as poetry texts, findings show extant research on many herbs [plants]. Such that there exists dichotomy between the gendered species plants. In addition, evidence r...