languages like Yoruba‚ Igbo ‚Hausa and all that then we learn that foreign language in most cases when most people who learn it here are affected by their own native intonation because even the people teaching it also have problems trying to adjust to the intonation of the foreign language. Second‚ in our country it would be hard for anyone to totally learn the foreign language .this is because most people around you don’t speak this language‚ especially when you are around most elderly people they prefer
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Dominique Johnson Professor John Oriji History 430 Yoruba Girl Dancing Part II Colonization Leads to Interlacing of Cultures Reading the second half of Yoruba Girl Dancing one thing I enjoyed most was the description of the many different cultures that Remi was forced to live amongst. These cultures included the European culture of the upper class Nigerian in Lagos‚ the culture of being at the private school‚ the working class British culture‚ the lifestyle of Germans who wanted well and
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HISTORY OF ITSEKIRI‚ WARRI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA‚ DELTA STATE The Itsekiris are a peculiar and unique people in the Nigerian Niger Delta. They have inhabited their homeland‚ which now constitutes the Warri Local Government Areas of Delta State‚ Nigeria‚ for centuries. The Itsekiris have rich traditional and cultural practices. In the 15th century‚ the early Itsekiris adopted a prince (Ginuwa) from the kingdom of Benin as a monarch‚ and quickly united into a kingdom under his rule. Prior to this
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served to project identity--anything ranging from gender‚ status‚ and age (Oyeniyi 43). Lighter colors were worn during warmer seasons and usually consisted of wearing a wrapper on the lower half of the body and leaving the upper half of the body bare. Yoruba cloth was also worn during various occasions. Based on Oguniran’s observations‚ he divided the occasions into four distinct groups: work or professional engagements‚ casual‚ ceremonial and simply‚ aesthetically pleasing (fashion) (Oyeniyi 44). Within
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date to the period before the arrival of the major religions in this ethnically and culturally diverse society. Does anyone know about The Osun Festival in Nigeria? The early history of the Oshogbo people is founded on mythical and spiritual beliefs‚ along the lines of the traditions of the Yoruba people. The Osun River goddess is credited with the founding and establishment of Oshogbo town. Some accounts describe her as Oso-Igbo‚ the queen and original founder of Oshogbo town. Thus‚ the Osun Oshogbo
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Ifa Theology; volume 1 Inner Peace the Yoruba Concept of Ori By Awo Falokun Fatunmbi Egbe Ifa Ogunti Ode Remo Table of Contents Acknowledgements 1 Introduction Ori The Ifa Concept Ara The Ifa Concept Ori – Inu The Ifa Concept Egbe The Ifa Concept Ipako The Ifa Concept Ile The Ifa Concept of Consciousness of the Physical Body of the Inner Self of Emotional Guidance of Balance Between Head and Heart of the Extended Family 2 Acknowledgements I want to thank those who taught
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empirical study on urban ethno-communal conflict in Nigeria: the case of IfeModakeke. Among the issues examined are the perception of the conflict‚ how past violence conflict is recollected‚ and attitude of people towards violence/conflicts/use of weapons‚ social interaction among the people of the two communities. Also examined is the relationship between perception of the conflict; social interaction; and attitude towards violence/conflicts/use of weapons. The data used is from a larger household
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large percentage of American people were a free love and peaceful society. Over 6‚000 miles away in Nigeria‚ citizens were not even safe in their own homes because of the fear of being killed. Nigeria was in a crisis; they were in a civil war. The civil war included three different tribes: the Biafra (Igbo) people‚ the Yoruba‚ and the Hausa-Fulani. The conflict was so bad that the United Nations had to get involved. The Biafra tribe is better known as the Igbo people. The Igbo’s land first came to
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representations of the earth and the sky. There is the Gelede mask created by the Yoruba tribe in 1950 that depicts this theme. The Gelede mask is used in the ceremony celebrating women during the Gelede festival. Above the mask you see these figures that depict two snakes and three birds. Birds can be seen as being closer to the sky and snakes as being closer to the earth. Then there is the Kanaga mask created by the Dogon people in 1950. The Kanaga mask contains two beams above it. The upper beam represents
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drawing‚ music‚ sculpture‚ architecture‚ literature‚ dance‚ computer arts‚ photography‚ and many more. Art is simply never-ending definition. African Art has played a huge profound role in culture & history of the world. African Art have inspired many people in the art world and it have inspired some most important artistic tradition emerging in Europe and
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