Nigeria is a large West African country, more than 900 000 km more than 900 000 km 2 2 in area – nearly in area – nearly four times the size of the UK. Despite four times the size of the UK. Despite having a population of about 117 million having a population of about 117 million people, 42% of whom live in cities, Nigeria people, 42% of whom live in cities, Nigeria has about half the populatio...

This International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) keynote lecture offers a glimpse on 20 years research transnationalization Orisha religion in ‘Black Atlantic’. By expanding Gilroy’s analyses to include South Atlantic, and particular, Brazil Nigeria, I focus diffusion these religious practices tricontinental space circulation. The transnational ‘Yoruba’ community is constituted b...

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...

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...

1 Introduction The analysis of Yoruba vowels has been the focus of several papers and has been a topic in numerous others. But while this body of work has led to a clear description of a wide variety of phenomena, it has also raised a number of problems of both analytic and theoretical interest. The core issue to be addressed here arises out of such work. Various patterns have been described th...