Struggle and Resort to Charcoal Energy for Livelihood Sustenance in the Cosmopolitan Ilorin Emirate: A Study on Bio-Inspired-Intelligence

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dc.contributor.authorSuleiman AbdulRahman Adebayo
dc.contributor.authorSidiq Sidikat Ahmed
dc.contributor.authorAbdulbaki Abdulwaheed Shola
dc.contributor.authorAjayi Olalekan Raymond
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-07T13:44:55Z
dc.date.available2026-01-07T13:44:55Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractThe use of charcoal (wooden coal) and firewood intensified worldwide since the Stone Age and Neolithic period. Its usage in ancient times symbolised one of the features of the world's social order. The abundance of wooden materials interfaces with the culture and traditions of the respective regions of the world. Varied intellects, knowledge, politics, and challenges of individual regional people necessitated the applications of wooden coal/firewood to their respective Indigenous industrial, manufacturing, and household productions and consumptions vis-à-vis subsequent transitions. Since the second half of the Eighteenth Century, Western world nations have advanced fossil fuel use during the Industrial Revolution to drastically reduce the need for charcoal/firewood. Such advancement led to the spread of fossil fuel to Africa, but relatively reduced the use of charcoal/firewood in all facets of her production. However, since the beginning of the Twenty-first Century, the sub-regional Africans have been immensely relegated to the great usage of charcoal/firewood. This paper appraised the compelling factors for gross charcoal usage and traditional usage of charcoal among Africans, using the cosmopolitan Ilorin Emirate as a case study. The work examines the fossil fuel cost concerning the Ilorin People’s standard of living to measure why the people converted to charcoal mainly as a source of energy. The method used comprised oral interviews, participant observation, sampling, comparative and text content analysis. The work concluded that while the Ilorin Emirate had relatively sustained the traditional usages of charcoal, varied intellects, knowledge, policies, and costly fossil fuel products have compelled its people to fully embrace the usages of charcoal for production.
dc.identifier.issn2408-6177
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/123456789/16876
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherDepartment of History and International Relations, Veritas University, (The Catholic University of Nigeria), Abuja, Nigeria.
dc.relation.ispartofseriesvol. 9 No.2; 140-154
dc.subjectCostly fossil fuel products
dc.subjectCharcoal
dc.subjecttradition/culture
dc.subjectfossil fuel
dc.subjectbio-inspired intelligence
dc.titleStruggle and Resort to Charcoal Energy for Livelihood Sustenance in the Cosmopolitan Ilorin Emirate: A Study on Bio-Inspired-Intelligence
dc.typeArticle

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