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Andrew Apter - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Yoruba Ethnogenesis from Within
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2013Co-Authors: Andrew ApterAbstract:AbstractIt is an anthropological truism that ethnic identity is “other”-oriented, such that who we are rests on who we are not. Within this vein, the development of Yoruba identity in the late nineteenth century is attributed to Fulani perspectives on their Oyo neighbors, Christian missionaries and the politics of conversion, as well as Yoruba descendants in diaspora reconnecting with their West African homeland. In this essay, my aim is to both complement and destabilize these externalist perspectives by focusing on Yoruba concepts of “home” and “house” (ilé), relating residence, genealogy and regional identities to their reconstituted ritual frameworks in Cuba and Brazil. Following Barber's analysis of Yoruba praise-poetry (oríkì) and Verran's work on Yoruba quantification, I reexamine the semantics of the category ilé in the emergence of Lucumí and Nagô houses in order to explain their sociopolitical impact and illuminate transpositions of racial “cleansing” and ritual purity in Candomblé and Santería. More broadly, the essay shows how culturally specific or “internal” epistemological orientations play an important if neglected role in shaping Atlantic ethnicities and their historical trajectories.
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Yoruba ethnogenesis from within
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2013Co-Authors: Andrew ApterAbstract:It is an anthropological truism that ethnic identity is “other”-oriented, such that who we are rests on who we are not . Within this vein, the development of Yoruba identity in the late nineteenth century is attributed to Fulani perspectives on their Oyo neighbors, Christian missionaries and the politics of conversion, as well as Yoruba descendants in diaspora reconnecting with their West African homeland. In this essay, my aim is to both complement and destabilize these externalist perspectives by focusing on Yoruba concepts of “home” and “house” ( ile ), relating residence, genealogy and regional identities to their reconstituted ritual frameworks in Cuba and Brazil. Following Barber's analysis of Yoruba praise-poetry ( oriki ) and Verran's work on Yoruba quantification, I reexamine the semantics of the category ile in the emergence of Lucumi and Nago houses in order to explain their sociopolitical impact and illuminate transpositions of racial “cleansing” and ritual purity in Candomble and Santeria. More broadly, the essay shows how culturally specific or “internal” epistemological orientations play an important if neglected role in shaping Atlantic ethnicities and their historical trajectories.
O R Ayemonisan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Computational Morphological Analysis of Yorùbá Language Words
IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI), 2018Co-Authors: Safiriyu I. Eludiora, O R AyemonisanAbstract:Nigeria official languages are English, Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa. The focus of the study reported in this paper is to develop learning tool that can assist learners to learn the Yoruba language using its alphabets. The study is critical to Yoruba language, because of its endangerment. There is need to introduce different learning tools that can mitigate its extinction. A Yoruba word perfect system was developed to assist people in learning the Yoruba language. English and Yoruba words formation are experimented using computational morphological approach (word formation). The theoretical framework considered Finite state automata (FSA) to realise different ways of combining the consonants and vowels to form word. Two to five letter words were considered. The system was designed and implemented using UML tools and python programming language.The system will teach the users on how the words are formed, and the number of syllables in each word. The user need not to know how to tone mark word before he/she can use the system. Any word typed will be analysed according to its number of syllables. This approach produces representatives of all parts of speech (POS) of the two languages. It produces corpora for the two languages
Charles Adedeji Ogidan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Yoruba Indigenous Medical Knowledge: A Study of the Nature, Dynamisms, and Resilience of Yoruba Medicine
Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2015Co-Authors: Saheed Balogun Amusa, Charles Adedeji OgidanAbstract:The Yoruba people, whose major homeland is southwestern Nigeria, are one of the major ethnic groups in Africa. They have a long history of highly sophisticated sociocultural and political systems. Like other ethnic groups in Africa, the Yoruba have an impressive system of indigenous medicine. The Yoruba indigenous forms of medical practices are still in existence up until today in spite of the influence of colonization, westernization, and modernization. The Yoruba medicine has its distinct nature, forms, and methods, and it has been very resilient to the imposed western medical system since the colonial period. Against this background, this paper examines the nature, forms, and methods of the traditional Yoruba medicine. The paper discovers that the traditional Yoruba medicine is typified by the use of herbs, roots, concoction, verbal incantations, and so on. It is also found out that among the Yoruba, health and religion are intertwined and therefore, the efficacy of Yoruba medicine is dependent on the approval of the Yoruba gods and goddesses (Orisha). In other words, important aspects of Yoruba medicine are belief system and spirituality. The paper concludes that, in spite of the great influence of modern western medicine, the Yoruba indigenous medicine is very resilient and it continues to play a vital role in the health management system among the Yoruba in contemporary Nigeria.
Safiriyu I. Eludiora - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Implementation of Yorùbá Language Multimedia Learning System
Transactions on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, 2018Co-Authors: Safiriyu I. Eludiora, Olamide A. AkinbandeAbstract:The use of multimedia learning system has been widely accepted as a useful and effective tool in the field of human language. Many students and researchers have examined multimedia learning’s effectiveness from a number of aspects, including four skills of learning: listening, speaking, reading (including vocabulary comprehensive) and writing. However, the effectiveness of multimedia in human language hasn’t been well explained. The goal of this study was to develop a multimedia learning system for a fresh learner of Yoruba language by introducing the Yoruba alphabets and their respective words. In particular, this study investigates the relative efficiency of three different modes used in teaching Yoruba language alphabets, directional complements: text only, text with a still picture and text with audio clips. In other to develop the system, many traditional textbooks, and written theses on Yoruba alphabets are consulted for effective study of the alphabets and their possible words. Java programming language was used for the implementation of the multimedia platform. After the implementation of this study, the platform will enable users to interact with a desktop and web-based Yoruba alphabets multimedia environment where easy and effective identification of Yoruba language alphabets. The platform will teaches on how to pronounce words from Yoruba language alphabets. In conclusion, Yoruba alphabet multimedia learning system provides efficient means of writing, reading and speaking Yoruba language.
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Computational Morphological Analysis of Yorùbá Language Words
IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI), 2018Co-Authors: Safiriyu I. Eludiora, O R AyemonisanAbstract:Nigeria official languages are English, Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa. The focus of the study reported in this paper is to develop learning tool that can assist learners to learn the Yoruba language using its alphabets. The study is critical to Yoruba language, because of its endangerment. There is need to introduce different learning tools that can mitigate its extinction. A Yoruba word perfect system was developed to assist people in learning the Yoruba language. English and Yoruba words formation are experimented using computational morphological approach (word formation). The theoretical framework considered Finite state automata (FSA) to realise different ways of combining the consonants and vowels to form word. Two to five letter words were considered. The system was designed and implemented using UML tools and python programming language.The system will teach the users on how the words are formed, and the number of syllables in each word. The user need not to know how to tone mark word before he/she can use the system. Any word typed will be analysed according to its number of syllables. This approach produces representatives of all parts of speech (POS) of the two languages. It produces corpora for the two languages
Saheed Balogun Amusa - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Yoruba Indigenous Medical Knowledge: A Study of the Nature, Dynamisms, and Resilience of Yoruba Medicine
Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2015Co-Authors: Saheed Balogun Amusa, Charles Adedeji OgidanAbstract:The Yoruba people, whose major homeland is southwestern Nigeria, are one of the major ethnic groups in Africa. They have a long history of highly sophisticated sociocultural and political systems. Like other ethnic groups in Africa, the Yoruba have an impressive system of indigenous medicine. The Yoruba indigenous forms of medical practices are still in existence up until today in spite of the influence of colonization, westernization, and modernization. The Yoruba medicine has its distinct nature, forms, and methods, and it has been very resilient to the imposed western medical system since the colonial period. Against this background, this paper examines the nature, forms, and methods of the traditional Yoruba medicine. The paper discovers that the traditional Yoruba medicine is typified by the use of herbs, roots, concoction, verbal incantations, and so on. It is also found out that among the Yoruba, health and religion are intertwined and therefore, the efficacy of Yoruba medicine is dependent on the approval of the Yoruba gods and goddesses (Orisha). In other words, important aspects of Yoruba medicine are belief system and spirituality. The paper concludes that, in spite of the great influence of modern western medicine, the Yoruba indigenous medicine is very resilient and it continues to play a vital role in the health management system among the Yoruba in contemporary Nigeria.
