Category: Culture

Divorce

Law – Civil, Social – Welfare

Divorce is the dissolution of marriage between two individuals. Since the early 20th Century, taxed dowries are usually refunded to former husbands after divorce, and on default, women are required to provide sureties for its payment within a specified time. Failure to pay at the expiration of this time will open for the husband the…
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Kofoworola Aina Moore

Lifestyle – Others, Literature – General

ADEMOLA Kofoworola, educationist and children books author, known later in life as Lady Ademola, being wife of Adetokunbo Ademola, the first indigenous Chief Justice of Nigeria. Kofoworola was an early 20th Century symbol of educated elite, born 1914 to a lawyer father, Eric Moore, who was a member of the Colonial Legislative Council and who…
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Communism

Philosophy – General, Policy

Communism is an ideology based on the precept of “common ownership” most popularly believed to have originated from the Greek philosopher, Plato’s 380BC piece, “The Republic” in which he described a state where people shared all their property, wives, and children. With the 1917 October revolution in Russia that brought the first communist organization to…
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Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III

Culture – Others, Lifestyle – Others

Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III was the Alaafin of Oyo since 1970, born 1938 to the Alaafin Adeyemi II Adeniran who was forced out of the throne in 1954 for taking sides with the less popular party in the Western region, the NCNC. Beating ten other princes at a contest that began in 1968, Lamidi Adeyemi…
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Dream

Culture, Social – Tradition

Dream is refereed to “An illusory mental image” in Roget’s II. The New Thesaurus Macmillan English Dictionary however defines dream as “something that you experience in your mind while you are sleeping.” From these two definitions, it is expected that human beings that have the capability of having mental images while sleeping will definitely dream. However, dream is…
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Jayin

People, Social – Tradition

Jayin was the Alaafin who succeeded ‘Karan the cruel’. Jayin’s petty lifestyle which appeared to be dedicated much to pleasure caused the nation to look up to his kind and generous son, Olusi for hope of the glory they wished for their empire. Olusi however, fell to the kind of life built around him, and…
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Ayibi

Social – Tradition

Ayibi emerged as Alaafin after the rule of an interim government headed by Basorun Iba Biri. He was the grandson of the immediate past Alaafin, Jayin, and son of the popular Prince, Olusi who died in the hands of his father in a rush of anger. Ayibi was too young at the time of Jayin’s…
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Awoniboju

Social – Tradition

Awoniboju, also known as Oluboye was one of the Alaafin of Oyo who reigned during the tyranny of Basorun Gaha. Surprising it will seem, that the Alaafin, given the antecedents of his predecessors, could be cowed by a warlord who was supposed to be inferior, but the political condition of his time made it possible,…
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Labisi

Social – Tradition

Labisi was the Alaafin of Oyo after Ojigi, the indulgent father who died with his son, and immediate predecessor of Amuniwaiye, the king disgraced because of his affairs with his medicine man’s wife. The prince of Oyo who was to assume the seat of Alaafin when the notorious Basorun Gaha rose to power. Gaha at…
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Augustus Otonba-Payne

History – General, History – Social, Social – Tradition

Augustus Otonba-Payne was a key figure in Lagos Colony during the reign of Queen Victoria of England. Otonba Payne was born 1839 in Sierra Leone. His father was captured from Ijebu Ode during one of the raids in which individuals were sold to slavery, but was soon rescued by the British anti-slavery squadron. Payne was educated…
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