Browsing by Author "ARINDE, Tayo Simeon"

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    Cultural implication of costume and make-up in Shao Awon Mass wedding festival
    (Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, 2018-04) ARINDE, Tayo Simeon; ARIYO, Mariam Monisola
    Culture is the belief, value, behavior, material and immaterial elements that constitute a people's way of life.Awon mass wedding festival of Shao is one culture that is of essence to the people of Shao. Consequently, this paper examines the implications of costume and make-up in Awon Mass wedding festival. It explores the cultural aesthetics of costume and make-up used by brides during the Awon Mass Wedding Festival. This study employed descriptive, participant-observation and interview methods of research. The participant-observation avails the researchers the opportunity to observer directly the festival from the pre-festival,festival to post-festival activities which affords it the opportunity to give a descriptive analysis of the various process of the ceremony. The interview method endow the researchers the opportunity to obtaining information directly from players at the festival. Information obtained from these methods provides our primary data. Materials sought from scholarly literary materials in the related fields such as; books, journals and internet sources provide our secondary data. Our findings reveal that make-up are not just used for beautification of brides, they are also used to discover pregnancy on the new brides and can also make a man impotent if necessary precautions are not taken. It was also discovered that brides take active part in the making of their cloth (Aso-oke) worn on the wedding day, from the planting and harvesting of cotton to making of the dye used on the clothing. This study concludes that Awon Mass Wedding Festival is a very rich traditional festival that can be placed side-by-side other traditional festival in Nigeria Therefore, people of Shao should elaborate it with a view to showcasing it to the outside world. In the same vein, Government of Kwara State and Nigeria should play their part in moving the Festival to the level of attracting global attention and patronage.
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    ‘KWAME-NIS!’, NKRUMAH’S LEADERSHIP DYNAMICS, A FACSIMILE OF PLAY DIRECTING IN OSIFISAN’S NKRUMAH-NI!…AFRICA-NI!: PANACEA FOR NIGERIA LEADERS
    (University of Education, Winneba, 2025-12-31) ARINDE, Tayo Simeon
    This paper explores “Kwame-nis!”, Kwame Nkrumah’s leadership dynamics, exemplified in Femi Osofisan’s Nkrumah-ni!...Africa-ni! The approach is seen a facsimile of the conventional method of Play Directing, theatrically accentuated in the play. When “Kwame-nis!” is juxtaposed with play making methodology, it is a replica of the conventional play directing approach, which this paper advocates as a leadership loom for Nigerian leaders. A qualitative research design approach, complimented with the tool of descriptive and textual analysis were the methodology through which the primary data of this work were drawn. Transformational Leadership Theory of James MacGregor Burns (1978) is employed to analyse the visionary disposition of Kwame Nkrumah leadership dynamics, juxtaposed with the conventional directing style in the dramaturgical analysis of Osofisan in Nkrumah-ni…Africa-ni! The paper finds that in play directing are deeply seated leadership model the replica of what Nkrumah’s “Kwame-nis!” leadership style typifies for leaders’ world over. The paper therefore, concluded that play directing is a lens through which the concept of leadership is exponentially made visible to the world. It, therefore, recommended that more professional registers should be explored as a medium of communication and pathways to demonstrating ethics in governance for leaders in Africa.
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    Mixing fun with serious business towards a democratic society in Femi Osofisan’s Yungba-yungba and the dance contest
    (Association of Dance Scholars and Dance Practitioners of Nigeria, University of Benin, 2016-06) ARINDE, Tayo Simeon; AKINSIPE Felix Akintunde
    In most African societies, the process of democracy is marred by nepotism, favouritism, which are the reasons why credible leaders are not installed in positions of authority. This paper examines the use of Dance in Femi Osofisan’s Yungba-Yungba and the dance contest as a tool for achieving egalitarianism, democratic governance and progressive change that our society has been clamouring for. Analytical and descriptive research methodologies are employed in interrogating this work. Arising from the above, our findings amongst others reveal that dance; a non-verbal communicative art is a tool that can be adapted to resolving knotty issues in a crises laden society. The paper concludes that while dance is fun it can also be is serious business when deployed as a tool in establishing democracy instituting bating true democracy. It is therefore recommended that dance as an art should be promoted and made an integral part of academic curriculum in our educational institutions for the training of future leaders.
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    Providing direction for the Nigeria Cultural reorientation in Iyorwuese Hager’s Lifetimes
    (Society for Theatre Artists (SONTA), 2017) ARINDE, Tayo Simeon; Lateef, Rasheed Olaitan
    The murky cloud that enveloped the Nigerian nation in the recent times has been laid in the doorstep of various degrees of social vices that manifest in corruption, child labour, illiteracy, early teenage pregnancy, sexploitation, kidnapping and other high level criminalities. These vices undoubtedly are as a result of flagrant disregard for cultural norms and ethos by the Nigerian. Consequent upon this, cultural re-orientation becomes apt in Nigeria. It is in that direction that this paper explores the role of drama as a medium capable of exciting the sought for a change in our cultural orientation using Iyorwuese Hagher's Lifetimes. Thus, we employ analytical method as a tool to identifying and excite attitudinal change that the literary piece under examination underscores in the dramaturgy of Hagher's Lifetimes. Having perused the work, our findings reveal that drama ranks amongst the veritable instruments that succinctly appeal to minds of people as well as a medium that soothingly elicit beneficial change in the people of any giving society. It has been variously established that drama is a luxuriating balm that engender the soothing magic of believability. The paper concludes that uneconomical exploration of the medium of drama is a leeway to cultural re-orientation. The paper therefore appeals to playwrights to rummage into more of the misdemeanours plaguing our society, document them for enlightenment, education, sustenance and cultural re-orientation of our society.