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A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt

I know when I was born; I mean to say that there are some people who know when I was...

Demo, Drama, Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History Mr. Toyin Omoyeni Falola
Art in Ancient Ife, Birthplace...

Artists the world over shape knowledge and material into works of unique historical importance. The artists of ancient Ife, ancestral...

Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History Suzanne Preston Blier
Between the ethnic and the...

This study investigates the discursive construction and politicization of ethnic and other sub-national identities in Nigeria, starting from the post-WWII...

Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Politics R.A. Adekoya
Between the ethnic and the...

This study investigates the discursive construction and politicization of ethnic and other sub-national identities in Nigeria, starting from the post-WWII...

Demo, Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History Remi A. Adekoya
Blier Cosmic References In Ancient...

THIS ESSAY CONSIDERS one of the most important Yoruba cosmological referents, the plan of the capital Ile- Ife and its...

Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Politics, Yoruba History Suzanne Preston Blier
British Rule and Indigenous Organization...

THEORISTS of Indirect Rule assumed a relationship between colonial strategy and the degree of political development in African tribal societies.1...

Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Politics, Religion Alvin Magid
Eweka Dynasty

Until quite recently, all the known historical traditions about the origin of the Eweka dynasty of Benin were unanimous in...

Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Literature, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History G. A. AKINOLA
History of Ekiti (From the...

The history of many places tells the story of wars waged by the countries in question ......

Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Literature, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History Msgr A. Oguntuyi
Ibadan Empire — Toye Ogunyemi

In the beginning, ibadàn started as a settlement of some radicals from nearby Yorúbá towns. Historians do not completely agree...

Biography, Demo, Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Literature, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History Toye Ogunyemi
Imperial Crises And Their Effect...

This paper is an attempt to examine the status of Islam in Oyo and its environs1 in the era of...

Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History E. DADA ADELOWO
Lugard Dual Mandate

METHODS OF RULING NATIVE RACES. IF continuity and decentralisation are, as I have said, the first and most important conditions...

Demo, Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History Frederick Lugard
Mother Is Gold Father Is...

During my third extended research trip in Kétu, Bénin, in the fall of 2006, when I asked people to explain...

Demo, Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Literature, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History Lorelle D. Semley
National Conference 2014 Report August...

1.1 BACKGROUND

1.1.1 The Federal Republic Nigeria with a population of approximately 170 million, located in West Africa,...

Demo, Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion Platinum Times
Settler Colonialism Then And Now

For students of settler colonialism in the modern era, Africa and America represent two polar opposites. Africa is the continent...

Demo, Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion Mahmood Mamdani
The Dual Mandate in British...

Lugard asserted that the direct cause of Africa’s partition was France’s search for rehabilitation in North and West Africa, following...

Autobiography, Biography, Demo, Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Literature, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion Frederick John Lugard
The Legacies Of J.S Olawoyin

Being the speech of Chief Bisi Akande at Offa on Saturday, October 9, 2010 as the Guest Speaker at the...

Autobiography, Biography, Demo, Geo-Politics, History, Journals, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History Chief Bisi Akande
Traditions Documents And the Ife...

Historians of Nigeria have been curious for many years about the relationship between the various states of the southern zone...

Demo, Geo-Politics, Journals, Nigerian History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Yoruba History John K. Thornton
yoruba-cusines Yoruba Cuisines & Delicacies (v1)

This first version release was compiled by Mobola Yusuf for Think Yoruba First.  More to come.

Demo, Journals, Yoruba History Mobola Yusuf