Being Text of a Paper Presented by Mr Ben Oguntuase‚ NAS Capone at the Anti-Cult Week Symposium organised by the University of Lagos on Wednesday‚ November 3‚ 1999 This Anti-Cult week marks another important step towards dealing with one of the contemporary problems facing higher education in Nigeria. The problems of the violence associated with "cultism" in higher institutions reached a climax with the cruel massacre of five students of the Obafemi Awolowo University‚ Ile-Ife in the early hours
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echoed‚ along with reflections upon our African lineage. Shango Orisha in the religion of the Yoruba people is a warrior deity‚ sky father and represents fire‚ male sexuality and power. He was once the fourth King of the Oyo people who was deified after death. Shango as King and as a God represent different elements of masculinity. As a King he was a womanizer who had three wives‚ he ruled over his people and women stringently‚ he was a fierce warrior‚ and a ruler who was quick to anger and tantrums
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923‚768 sq. km while population is put at about 140‚000‚000 as at 2007. This represents up to 20% of Africa’s population‚ and Nigeria is among the fastest growing of the world countries‚ with about 2.38% growth rate. The major tribes in Nigeria are Yoruba‚ Hausa and Igbo while Christianity‚ Islam and the indigenous African Traditional Religion are the major religions in the country. The operating land law in Nigeria is premised on the received English Land Law which is also known as the Law of
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The Yorùbá religion encompasses religious beliefs and rituals of the Yoruba people. These practices were being utilized before the Yoruba community faced Islam‚ Christianity and other faith; it originated from Africa and into the New World. This influenced several Afro-American religions such as Lucumí in Cuba‚ Umbanda and Candomblé in Brazil; in addition to the uproot that took place of the homeland religions. Similar to many other religions that have some form of beliefs and practices‚ Yorùbá religious
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A worthy life Our lives are being chosen by us and being determined by our future‚ people are being judged from where they come from while others are being judge from where they are heading to‚ but the mystery always remains with us. He was a man‚ a man indeed‚ He was like any other man who was born and raised in Ikenne‚ He went to school like all other men in his time‚ He was disciplined for late coming like other
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Art Criticism This artwork was made by the Yoruba People from Southwest Nigeria and Southern Benin around the first half of the 20th century. World War 1‚ World War 2‚ The Great Depression‚ the Cold War‚ were many major historical events that were taking place at the time that changed the worlds view on just about everything. The Yoruba People began creating their magnificent Sculptures‚ Pottery‚ Beadwork‚ Leather‚ and Headdress in the 12th through 14th centuries. Most artwork is made to
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country in Africa‚ accounting for about one-sixth of African population. 1 The largest ethnic group in the northern part‚ which is about two-thirds of the country‚ is the Hausa-Fulani‚ majority of who are Muslims. The Yoruba are the most numerous in the southwest. Over half of the people are Christians and about a quarter are Muslims‚ with the remainder following mostly African Traditional beliefs. 2 The predominantly Christian Igbo are the largest ethnic group in the southeast. There are at least 250
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Deathi in the play Death and the King’s Horseman In the play Death and the King’s Horseman‚ Wole Soyinka allows death to function outside of the people in the play and work as a character of its own. This is seen in the title of the play. It is not The Death of the King’s Horseman or The King’s Horseman and his Death. The title reads “death” as a separate character from “the King’s Horseman.” The most important role of death in the play is in fact not that of the King’s Horseman‚ but rather the
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notions of Yoruba tribal arts. The region of West Africa that today includes the countries of Nigeria‚ Benin‚ and Togo is the land of the Yoruba people‚ whose art is an essential and integral element in their way of life (see image 1 for the Map of Yorubaland‚ showing major towns). The Yoruba are among the oldest and most influential of all African cultures and today make up one of Africa’s largest ethnic groups. More than 25 million Yoruba live in Africa‚ and large vibrant communities of Yoruba immigrants
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to help people understand why things are like they are and have been passed throughout the generations and are still around and some myths follow patterns called motifs. Some motifs are more important than others and I will tell you what are the three most important in my opinion and what religions used them. Science tells us that the world was
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