Adeshina Afolayan Department of Philosophy University of Ibadan adeshinaafolayan@gmail.com Abstract Beginning from Marx’s understanding of the relationship between philosophy and reality, this Introduction to the special edition of the Yoruba […]
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Segun Gbadegesin Department of Philosophy Howard University, United States agbadegesin@howard.edu Abstract As a major ethnic nationality in the multinational state cobbled together and christened by Lord Frederick Lugard, the Yoruba […]
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Ronald Olufemi Badru Department of Politics and International Relations Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria femmydamak@gmail.com Abstract The paper advances three groups of interrelated claims. First, a fundamental deficit of democratic […]
Omotade Adegbindin Department of Philosophy University of Ibadan, Nigeria tadegbindin@yahoo.com Abstract As an exercise in African philosophy, this paper examines and demonstrates the limitations of the two popular extremes in […]
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems (Compcros) http://danteadinkra.wixsite.com/compcros toyin.adepoju@gmail.com Abstract What is the value of Yoruba epistemology, theory of knowledge, particularly its philosophy of perception, to humanity in […]
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Wale Olajide Department of Philosophy Ekiti State University ashaolu54@yahoo.co.uk Abstract This essay interrogates what can be described as Yorùbá population philosophy, within the context of Yorùbá existential thought, and the […]
Yunusa Kehinde Salami Department of Philosophy Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria yunusalami@gmail.com Abstract This paper examines the àsùwàdà principle as an indigenous social theory, which is based on alásùwàdà, a body […]
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Michael O. Afolayan M & P Educational Consulting International mafolayan@yahoo.com Abstract This essay 1critically explores the semantic, phonological and philosophical implications of the sound “kọ”́ (build) in the Yorùbá proverb—Ọmọ […]
Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi Department of Archeology and Anthropology University of Ibadan, Nigeria oblawuyi2008@yahoo.com Abstract The paper critically examines the relationship between the idea of moral placards and the existence of […]
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Sharon Adetutu Omotoso Institute of African Studies University of Ibadan, Nigeria sharonomotoso@gmail.com Abstract Nigeria’s political sphere is fraught with violence, electoral frauds, unfulfilled promises and negligence on the part of […]
Abimbola Adelakun African and African Diaspora Studies Department University of Texas at Austin United States of America aa_adelakun@utexas.edu Abstract This essay will study how the Yorùbá conceptualize “ọ̀tá” or the […]
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John Ayọtunde Iṣọla Bẹwaji Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica tunde.bewaji@gmail.com Abstract This essay deploys Yorùbá ontology, epistemology and axiology to construct […]
Sunday Olaoluwa Dada Department of Philosophy Ekiti State University, Nigeria sunday.dada@eksu.edu.ng Abstract This essay explores the philosophical affinity between Aristotle’s concept of virtue as character habituation and the Yorùbá ethical […]
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Olayinka Oyeleye Department of Philosophy University of Ibadan Nigeria talk2yinka@yahoo.com Abstract This paper explores a narrative path towards foregrounding what it calls a gender-relative morality as a core dimension of […]
Babalọla Joseph Balogun Department of Philosophy Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria talk2joey@yahoo.com Abstract The place of the world in the life of individual human being cannot be underestimated. This fact has […]
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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems (Compcros) http://danteadinkra.wixsite.com/compcros toyin.adepoju@gmail.com Introduction: Why Write an Essay on an Essay? One may compose an essay on another essay, and possibly an […]
Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi (Eds). Encyclopedia of the Yoruba. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. 371pp. Ibrahim A. Odugbemi University of Ibadan, Nigeria Encyclopedia of the Yoruba […]
Volume 3 :: Number 1 :: Fall 2018 ISSN 2473-4713 The Yorùbá Studies Review is a refereed biannual journal dedicated to the study of the experience of the Yorùbá peoples […]