Category: Culture

Tiwa Savage

Entertainment – Music, Music – Afro-Hip-Hop, Music – Pop, Social – Relaxation

Tiwa Savage, Afro pop singer was born in Lagos in February 1980 as the youngest and the only girl among male siblings. At the age of eleven, she was moved with family to London, where as a fresh migrant kid, she had attempted to integrate into the circle to which she was endeared in High…
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Orunmila

History – General, Literature – Myths, Literature – Religious, Philosophy – African

Orunmila was a philosopher, and major intellectual personae of the Yoruba Ifa literary corpus which deals with subjects as diverse as history, geography, religion, or music. Orunmila together with his sixteen disciples is credited with the authorship of most of the four thousand and more verses attached to the Odu Ifa, a record of the…
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Mo Abudu

Entertainment – Media, Human Resources, Lifestyle – Others, Media – TV & Radio

Mo Abudu; Talk show Hostess, hospitality, entertainment and media entrepreneur. Abudu’s show, Moments with Mo is Africa’s first syndicated talk show to be broadcast on M-Net and it goes out to over 40 countries. Shows are recorded in front of a studio audience with a variety of topics explored. Coming from a professional background of…
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Toke Makinwa

Lifestyle – Fashion, Media – TV & Radio

On Air Personality, born 3 November 1985 in Abuja as a second child child to parents originating from Idanre. Later, the family moved to Lagos. At nine, she lost her parents in a fire accident, and was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Akinyelure. Her secondary education was at Federal Government Girls College Oyo. Toke Makinwa,…
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Nri Civilization

Agriculture – Soil Science, History – Civilization, Philosophy – African, Tradition – Customs

Nri Civilization occasioned a medieval Igbo institution, located in the colonial Awka division. The town of Nri was hypothesized by A.G. Leonard, British royal officer in 1902 as the fountainhead from which all the other clans of Igbo, eastern Nigeria’s tribe of the greatest number, sprung. The culture of Nri, as stated by Onwuejeogwu in…
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Conservatism

Philosophy – General, Social – Psychology

Conservatism is resistance to change due to preference for stability and continuity. The conservative believes in the value of history and favors traditional institutions over the abstract or ideal, as it is represented in liberalism and socialism. Gradualism, which is the milder form of conservatism, rather than resist change, disapprove of revolution, believing it to bear…
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Adolescence

Public Health, Social – Psychology, Social – Welfare

Adolescence is the period of development from the onset of puberty, to the attainment of adulthood, hence the transitional period between childhood and adulthood. The WHO pegs this between the ages of ten and nineteen years. Adolescence is characterized by physical maturation of the brain and body, giving rise to intense psychological and physical change,…
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Commitment

Philosophy – General, Social – Welfare

Commitment is a philosophical concept popularized by the 20th Century French existentialist philosopher, Gabriel Marcel. Other existentialist philosophers have discussed themes conveying similar meanings as Marcel’s commitment but differs in that Marcel‘s own conception is very much humanist, recognizes God as the absolute being characterised by love, goodness, and several other quintessential virtues. In Marcel’s…
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Counselling

Education – Secondary, Social – Psychology, Social Sciences

Counseling is a professional activity involving the use of interpersonal relationship to quicken understanding of oneself and to encourage changes in life choices. Counselors often employ particular counseling theories in their operation or may go eclectic. There is the Client Centred approach which involves active listening and empathy, geared towards assisting clients to discover and…
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Dada Adeshigbin

Philosophy – General, Textile

Dada Adeshigbin was a 19th Century townsman and one of the principal founders of the African Bethel Church. Dada Adeshigbin was born in Owu in 1865. Hardly anything is known of his early life except that he was educated at the Breadfruit School, Lagos and later he was apprenticed to a famous tailor of his…
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