Research Catalog

Title

African culture & civilization / edited by S. Ademola Ajayi.

Publication

Ibadan, Nigeria : Atlantis Books, 2005.

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Additional Authors

Ajayi, S. Ademola (Simon Ademola)

Description

xiv, 438 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

African culture and civilization

Subject

• Africa > History
• Africa > Civilization
• Nigeria > History
• Nigeria > Civilization

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The concept of culture / S. Ademola Ajayi -- Misconceptions about African culture, civilization and history / Felix O. Alao -- Sources for the study of early African culture and civilization / S. Ademola Ajayi -- African culture and development in time perspective / O.B. Olaoba -- The early man in Africa / David A. Aremu -- Egyptian civilization in the age of modernity / Saawua G. Nyityo -- Traditional system of education in Africa / A.M. Olagunju -- African traditional political institutions and government / Victor Osaro Edo -- Traditional African economic system / Paul K.N. Ugboajah -- The traditional cloth-dyeing technology in Ilorin, Nigeria / R.A. Olaoye -- African traditional religion and belief systems / Samson A. Fatokun -- Cross-culturalism: rereading Arabic into African culture / Afis A. Oladosu -- The North African nexus: cross cultural influences and implication for Nigerian art traditions / Aderonke Adesola Adesanya -- Music in contemporary African society / Emurobome Idolor -- Understanding Nigerian history and culture through its theatre and drama / Samuel Ayedime Kafewo -- Functions and forms of "traditional" threatre practice in Nigeria / P.A. Ogundeji -- African philosophy, culture and society / Amechi Udefi -- The interplay between literature and culture: a thematic approach to The African Child and So Long a Letter / Ernest Cole -- Cross-cultural influences and correspondences in contemporary Nigerian drama / A.O. Dayla -- Indigenous traditions and modern African writers / Ayo Kehinde -- The role of language in socialization and culture / Solomon C. Madubuike -- Language and communication in the traditional African society: the Yoruba example / Ago Ogunsiji & 'Yinka Adoye -- The question of gender in African culture -- Dorcas Olu Akintunde -- Women, power and society in precolonial Africa / Onaiwu W. Ogbomo -- Pan-Africanism, the OAU and African Union / Saad Y. Omoiya -- European penetration and its influence on African culture and civilization / Oluwakemi Abiodun Adesina -- The influence of colonialism on some core African values: the Tiv experience / Toryima Emma Jenkwe.

ISBN

• 9789783545458 (pbk.)
• 9783545450 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007327315

OCLC

74324059

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library