The Problem of Unity in Nigeria
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Journal Article The Problem of Unity in Nigeria Get access FREDERICK PILKINGTON FREDERICK PILKINGTON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 220, July 1956, Pages 219–222, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.af…
Kwashiorkor in Northern Nigeria.
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Groundwork of Nigerian law
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Improvement Associations among the Afikpo Ibo
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Opening Paragraph In recent years a new type of association, the improvement union or ‘meeting’, has become common in Southern Nigeria. Associations of this kind may be formed on a lineage, clan, village, village-group, divisional, or tribal basis, and may carry out various econo…
On Swearing. An account of some Judicial Oaths in Northern Nigeria
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Opening Paragraph One of the Lecturers at the University College of Ibadan recently declared that a vital and often neglected source of information for the would-be anthropologist was the tribal court records. Here, written down with the ingenuous casualness of banality, is a tre…
Regionalism in Nigeria : a study in federalism
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British West Africa
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These possessions are the colony and protectorate of Nigeria; the Gambia colony and protectorate; the Gold Coast colony with Ashanti and northern territories, and the Sierra Leone colony and protectorate.
Future of Nigerian federalism: I
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Supplementary bibliography on the Ibo‐speaking people of South‐Eastern Nigeria
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This bibliography is designed to suppltment the excellent one published in 1950 by Forde and Jones,2 a listing that was primarily ethnographic in scope. The present one, while also including ethnographic works, contains as well, historical, travel, exploratory, and missionary acc…
Can there be unity in Nigeria
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Drums of the Yoruba of Nigeria. Ethnic Folkways Library (New York). P.AAI. LP.
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Historical Records of Nigeria
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NOTES AND NEWS established and six more had been planned, in addition to four village schools in Moslem areas.Where men from a village or group of hamlets have built a school by their own labour, they show a great interest in the school's development; parents' committees have bee…
State Power, Autarchy, and Political Conquest in Nigerian Federalism
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This book shows how specific historical events and societal forces within Nigeria transcend the choices its political leaders have made to influence the course of the state's political development. Kalu N. Kalu describes a variety of factors that have contributed to the challenge…
FOLKLORE, ART, MUSIC: Drums of the Yoruba of Nigeria. W illiam B ascom
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The Yoruba Lineage
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Opening Paragraph The Yoruba, a people numbering over 5½ million, living in south-west Nigeria, need little introduction. They are almost unique among African peoples in that they live in large settlements, many of which were capitals of chiefdoms; 42 per cent, of them live in to…
Kinship and Lineage among the Yoruba
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Opening Paragraph This paper presents an analytic description of the principles underlying the traditional kinship system of the Yoruba people of Western Nigeria in the community of Oshogbo. Aggregation into large-scale urban-like communities which are characterized by the close…
Field Notes on the Arabic Literature of the Western Sudan: Shehu Usumanu ḍan Fodio
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In January and February of 1954 the writer travelled some 4,000 miles through the Northern Eegion of Nigeria in search of Arabic manuscripts for the Library of the University College of Ibadan, and also to make a survey of the indigenous Arabic literature of the peoples of the We…
Margaret Wrong Medal, 1954
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From the point of view of the historian in Great Britain or the United States, it is unfortunate that most of this material is to be found only in Nigeria. It i also unfortunately true that there are as yet only a few qualified African historians. If the material is to be used at…
The Shantu music of the Harims of Nigeria
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Perhaps the most fascinating of all Nigerian music is the Shantu music and soft rhythmical singing which comes from the women’s courtyards of the Muslim Harims. I do not know of any other music either in Africa or the world which can be compared to it. Recently I have been able t…
Groundwork of Nigerian Law. By T. Olawale Elias. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1954. Pp. xxx + 374. 30s.
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