Browsing by Author "Aboyeji, Adeniyi Justus"

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    ‘Apartheid’ in British Colonial Nigeria: Dynamics of Recurrent Ethno-religious Conflicts in Nigeria
    (Published by the Faculty of Arts, Business and Science University College of the North Manitoba, Canada, 2022-09) Aboyeji, Adeniyi Justus; Adimula, Ruth Abiola; Aboyeji, Oyeniyi Solomon; Ibrahim, Bashir Olaitan
    This paper expounds its thesis, bordering on Nigeria’s balkanisation along regional-cum-ethno-religious divides, using the historical-narrative-cum-analytical approach. Having perceived the sombre religious threat to inter-group relations in northern Nigeria, the British colonialists, beginning with Kano, designated segregated districts: ‘township’ (occupied by the British), Birni (exclusively for Hausa-Fulani Kanawa Muslims) and Tundun-Wada, Gwargwarma and Sabon-Gari (for southern Christian immigrants). The British initiated an ordinance, which birthed the Sabon-Gari settlement system in Northern Nigeria, to prevent contact. This ‘Sabon-Gari’ culture began in Kano in 1911 and gradually filtered throughout Northern Nigeria. Similarly, in southern Nigeria, the Igbo established the ‘Garki’ quarters where the Hausawa were settled. Elsewhere, they were resettled in separate ‘Sabo’ quarters, in tandem with the British ethno-religious segregationist policies analogous to Southern Africa’s apartheid. Health-wisely, certain sanatoria were designated specifically as European or African. This ‘apartheid’ “European Quarters” designation has survived till date as a post-independence legacy, dubbed Government Reservation Areas (GRAs). Conclusively, the divide and rule tactics Britain administered the country with, provoked and strengthened in-group self-consciousness and bonding, and out-group bickering and balkanisation. We recommend, inter alia, a revert of the colonialist divisive ideology, which stirs perpetual division, competition and bigotry between the Muslim-dominated north and Christian-dominant south.
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    Beyond the Lure of Oil: Alternatives for the Sustainable Economic Development of Nigeria
    (Faculty of Arts, Business and Science University College of the North Manitoba, Canada, 2021-12) Aghalino, Samuel Ovuete; Aboyeji, Adeniyi Justus
    The free fall in the price of oil and the attendant reduction in revenue accruing to the government of Nigeria has engendered the need to look beyond the lure of oil and re-energise other sectors of the Nigerian economy. Developments in other parts of the world and vagaries in international economic system has shown the futility of relying on one primary product. In this paper, we wager that Nigeria is so endowed and has no business being poor if it can harness its potentials and diversify her economy. Relying on content analysis of available sources, we found out that when other oil blessed countries such as Kuwait imbibed Watts' (2012, p.1) "Capture oil rents and sow the oil reserves" counsel by using the petrodollars to develop and boost other sectors and thereby transmogrifying their economies and bettering the lot of their citizenry, Nigeria simply abandoned the lands/farms for the creeks. We recommend that government should revisit agriculture, industrialisation, entertainment and tourism in order to maximise the potentials of these sectors. It concludes that for the country to sail above its present economic quagmire, it is imperative to look beyond lure of oil and diversify fast to avert the imminent collapse of the economy.
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    Exploring the Igbomina Trado-medic and Pharmaceutical Values
    (Routledge African Studies. Taylor and Francis Group London and New York, 2020-09) Aboyeji, Adeniyi Justus
    No attempt is made in this paper at a peregrination or perusal of Pharmacy as an academic discipline. Conversely, our emphases are on how historical research can facilitate Pharmacy as a discipline to benefit maximally from the values of indigenous knowledge system of traditional medicine in Igbomina. This paper, which adopts a historic-structural, systematic and analytical approach, with a combination of primary and secondary sources of data collection, explores the rich geography, vegetation, ecology as well as trado-medic and pharmaceutical values of the land and people of Igbomina. Our findings reveal that, contrary to the common view regarding the holocaust of African indigenous traditional values to modernity, it is incredibly fascinating to realise that much has been preserved in the institution of young minds who, if given the enabling environments, are ready and zealous about taking the African indigenous knowledge system to enviable heights in our own generation. Our conclusion is that amazingly, the beautiful ones are already born, even though the ugly ones (who do not want the young to grow) are not yet dead. We only need to discover them and create the enabling environments for them to survive and rule the world with natural, probably un-chemicalised therapeutic, curative and healing methods.
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    From (Palm) Oil to (Crude) Oil: The Changing Phases of the Niger-Delta Oil Economy
    (Department of History and War Studies, Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, 2020) Aboyeji, Adeniyi Justus
    The economic history of the region that is known today as the Niger-Delta has always revolved around oil, palm or crude. Indeed, the rat race from farms to oil firms in the creeks and mainland in this region was occasioned by the change from palm oil economy to that of crude oil. The abandonment of the agricultural sector for the oil sector, following the discovery of oil, came despite the economic sustainability that the former had given prior to the coming of the latter. The methodologies adopted in this paper are largely historical and analytical, employing the use of both primary and secondary source materials, with careful internet surfing. Findings reveal paradoxically that while Malaysia, where the British introduced oil palm to in the early 1870s just as an ornamental plant, is still raking economic fortunes from it till date, Nigeria, part of the tropical West Africa where oil palm groves grow as indigenous plants, abandoned its oil palm for crude oil in the 1970s, despite its humongous contribution to the state economy prior to the discovery of crude oil. It could therefore be said that Nigeria played the prodigal, by selling its birth-right—palm oil—to Malaysia. The consequences of this abandonment, to say the least, have been grim. The paper concludes that while oil palm was a blessing to the Niger-Delta region and Nigeria by extension, crude oil is more of a curse than blessing, as the present realities portend clear indications that the country’s economy is heading straight for the rocks. The recent further crash in global oil price, particularly at the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak, and general developments in the international energy market further dealt an even heavier blow on Nigeria’s monolithic economy. From the foregoing analysis, we therefore recommend, inter alia, an urgent and sincere need for the Nigerian government to declare a “state of emergency” on its economic sector for possible resuscitation from the imminent disaster. In tandem with this, urgent and provocative measures need be taken to rescue Nigeria’s monolithic economy from the precipice of economic cataclysm.
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    Indigenous Industries in Igbominaland
    (Department of History and International Studies, University of Ilorin and Department of History and International Studies, Prince Abubakar Audu University, Kogi State., 2022) Aboyeji, Adeniyi Justus
    Attempt is made in this chapter to catalogue the various indigenous industries in Igbominaland, partly to demystify Eurocentric arrogance that is often peddled in favour of the West, and partly to bring to the fore the robust and composite productive system marked by occupational differentiations. This paper adopts a historic-structural and descriptive approach, with a combination of primary and secondary sources of data collection, to expound its thesis. Our findings reveal that, the economic activities in precolonial Igbominaland, as it was with most other West African groups, comprised three branches of the economy: the agrarian economy, indigenous production techniques (crafts/industries), as well as trade and commerce, the exchange and distributions of the various agricultural and industrial products. The indigenous industries in Igbominaland were either agro-allied (such as textile,) with some agricultural products serving as raw-materials for the local industries, or agro-induced, such as blacksmithing and iron metallurgy. Our conclusion is that although the indigenous economy in Igbomina rested largely on agrarianism, the Igbomina society was agog with productive industrial activities, indigenous to the people; as the skills, techniques and raw materials involved were all internally/locally generated from within the area. It is therefore plausible, in the final analysis, to posit that the sustainable economic activities evident in pre-colonial Igbominaland, particularly drew the attention of the British, known for her imperialism of economics. This was a major catalyst for foreign influence on Igbomina.
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    Multi-disciplinarity and Town-Gown Synergy: Sine qua non for Regional Industrialisation and Economic Transformation
    (Universites d’Abomey-Calavi Faculte Lettres, Langues, Art et Communication LASODYLA-REYO/UAC –2019, Benin Republic, 2019-12) Aboyeji, Adeniyi Justus; Aboyeji, Oyeniyi Solomon; Adimula, Ruth Abiola
    This paper examines the functionality of West African universities vis-à-vis their tripartite mandate—teaching, research and community service. Given that University research increases the body of theoretical knowledge, its application to societal problems, professional training for high-level jobs, and the education necessary for personality and societal development, this paper establishes the town-gown nexus as sine qua non for West African sub-regional industrialisation and economic transformation. It is scandalous that but for Cape Town University, South-Africa, ranked 200th of the top 1000 universities worldwide, Africa would have been completely missing on the top 200 list, going by the 2019 QS World University Ranking. Only three other (two South-African and one Egyptian) African Universities appear in the top 500. No West African university made that 1000 list. This study attempts an analytical and discussant study approach, utilising available source-materials—books, journals, unpublished theses and careful internet surfing. The business of universities is to identify societal problems and conduct researches to solve them. Findings show that most universities live in relative isolation from the larger society; as mono-causality and poor research dissemination have hitherto crippled the quest for creativity and innovation required to unleash sustainable development. Decrying the dilapidating state of Universities, the hub of structured research, the late Unilorin orator, Professor Shehu Jimoh, observed: “They refer to tertiary institutions, especially Universities as 'Ivory Towers' but I must say, with what is going on in these institutions of learning today, it would appear that the ivory has oozed out of the towers”. Thus, spirited efforts must be launched to restore the ivory to their dilapidating towers. We recommend, inter alia therefore, a paradigm shift from mono-causal to multi-inter-cum-trans-disciplinary research approach, and a proper synergy between the town and the gown as sine qua non for West African regional industrialisation and economic transformation.
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    Music Art and Militarism in the 19th Century Yorubaland
    (Published by the Department of the Performing Arts, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria, 2019) Aboyeji, Adeniyi Justus
    The need for Africans to unswervingly resist every mechanism put in place to displace and dispel her rich cultural heritage, particularly indigenous music, under whatever guise of euroentricism, be it civilization, Christianity or modernity, is palpable. Extant researches abound which clearly reveal that the indigenous African culture has remained precariously embattled and endangered by Eurocentric bigotry over the years. Indeed, Africans had been copiously described as ‘atheistic’, ‘heathen’, ‘primitive’, ‘pagan’, ‘idolatrous’, ‘savage’, ‘deusremotus’, ‘deusincertus’ or ‘deusabconditus’. These descriptions outside their etymological context, are however, not more than mere errors of terminology. Afrocentric subscription to this indoctrination, is however even more dismal. This paper argues that the chauvinism against indigenous African culture generally and music specifically is only a display of their depth of ignorance and myopic parochialism vis-à-vis the usage and efficacy of indigenous music. This paper therefore brings to limelight the place of music in militarism and/or warfare; revealing among other findings that dance, drums and music function at multifarious levels including warfare and military purposes. The place of music in militarism, as expounded in this paper, included though not limited to: kinaesthetic-dynamo art, innervating and enervating, psychological catharsis, relaying intelligence, mimicry, reinforcement, psycho-spiritual and technical advisory role. It concludes that music, which undoubtedly is an aspect of culture, and a universal phenomenon, played a central and dynamic role in Yoruba militarism, without which the fate of warfare could remain undetermined or precarious. Music could prove to be mightier than Maxim and Gatling guns, igniting incitements reminiscent of the 1994 Rwandan ‘déjà vu’; the dynamism and dynamics of which has been aptly captured in the Yoruba dictum ‘Orin ní ń sáájú ὸtè’, meaning ‘Songs often incite rebellion’.
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    ‘Peace and Conflict Management in Traditional Yoruba Society’
    (Published by the International Centre for Ethno-religious Mediation (ICERM) in Special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)., 2019-12-18) Aboyeji, Adeniyi Justus
    Peace management is more imperative than conflict resolution. Indeed, if peace is effectively managed, there will be no conflict to resolve. Given that conflict is a ubiquitous and inevitable part of human existence, this paper borders its thesis on the imperatives for peace and conflict management (PCM) in human society, using the traditional Yoruba society model. A comparative analysis of PCM in the Yoruba society in traditional and modern times reveals a radical departure from the indigenous PCM framework which had kept animosity at bay and ensured peaceful coexistence. Relying on the qualitative method of data collection and analysis, based on extant secondary materials, this study aims at systematically exploring the robust heritage of the traditional system of jurisprudence (TSJ) in Yorubaland, such as the spirito-extra-juridical framework, use of masquerades, sasswood concoction administration, “broom-and-key” method, and use of legal proverbs. Findings of this study affirm that the incursion of foreign ideology and introduction of the western colonialist model of jurisprudence into the African (and Yoruba) setting, which introduced alien methods such as litigation, came as a rude interruption to the existing judicial ethos. As such, litigation is completely un-African, considering the Yoruba belief system of “No camaraderie continuum after litigation.” Conclusively, the recent renaissance of the crusade for alternative dispute resolution (ADR) only resonates a call to revert to the Yoruba TSJ with its array of long-standing indigenous mechanisms circumspectly instituted and jealously guarded for effective PCM. We recommend, inter alia therefore, a reversion to out-of-court settlement, dubbed ADR.
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    Resolving the Share-Tsaragi Crises through the Internal Mechanisms of Religion and Inter-Marriage
    (Faculty of Arts, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria, 2021) Olademo, O.; Omotoye, R. W.; Ikibe, S. O.; Ibraheem, Lateef Onireti; Tijani, Y. O.; Aboyeji, Adeniyi Justus; Abubakre, Samiat O.; Adebisi, A.A.; Fahm, AbdulGafar Olawale; Adimula, Ruth Abiola
    Share and Tsaragi, two neighbouring communities in KwaraState, Nigeria, have not yet imbibed the culture of peaceful co-existence. There have been about six commissions/panels on the two communities’ boundary dispute between 1976 and 2015, whose recommendations have either been rejected by warring parties or never implemented by the relevant authorities. The focus of this study is to examine how religion and inter-marriage could lead to lasting solution andreconciliatory measures to foster peace in the inter-communal conflict between the two communities, which have lingered for too long. The study was both descriptive and analytical. The primary sources of data collection were questionnaires, and structural interview. The Likert Scale was used to measure the response on all dimensions of 128 respondents selected, using a convenience sampling technique. Structural interviews and confidence building workshops were conducted with/for stakeholders in the two communities. Data analysis was done using SPSS software, simple percentage and descriptive analysis, respectively. The secondary sources focused on journals, textbooks and the internet relevant to the research topic. Two-key findings of the study are: lack of readiness by the two communities to imbibe genuine spirit of give and take and the viability of religion and inter-marriage as internal mechanism to resolve the crisis. This study is anchored on the territorial theory with three approaches bordering on proximity, interaction and territoriality in explaining why communities rage and wage wars over boundary or territory related matters.
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    Time and Resource Management in Research
    (Published by the Faculty of Arts, University of Ilorin, 2019) Aboyeji, Adeniyi Justus; Aiyedun, Kolawole David; Ibrahim, Bashir Olaitan
    This chapter assesses the management of time and other resources in research efforts. The chapter discusses five resource domains (namely human, time, information, funding and computing resources) which must be effectively managed in research to achieve a successful outcome. This study attempts an analytical and discussant study approach. Human life is replete with problems of varying dimensions for which solutions are constantly being sought. In a bid to find solutions to the multifarious problems of life and fend for himself, human beings often launch concerted and hysterical efforts. Even after finding a solution to a raging problem, humans have always sought for improvements and better ways around things, knowing fully well that there could always be a better way. Since they may not succeed in the struggle for the search at debut, hence the need to duplicate the search; and so, human beings search and research until solution or betterment is achieved. The phenomenon of human’s searching and researching is therefore bound to continue ad infinitum (Fadele, 2013, p.1). Cohen and Marion (1989) identify three approaches in human’s frenzied attempts at problem solving, namely: Experience, Reasoning (inductive and deductive) and Research; research still being a fundamental universal means and process of finding solutions to human’s problems.