Category: Culture

Sexual objectification

Entertainment – Dance, Entertainment – Pop Culture, Social – Psychology, Social – Welfare

Sexual objectification is the treatment of a person as passive receptacle of another’s sexual desire. Although objectification may occur for both genders, it is mostly used generically for women, who are seen as sexual commodity without recurs to their personality or dignity. This practise is most prevalent in the advertising and entertainment industry. In an…
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Alaafin

Culture – Others

Alaafin is the title for the traditional ruler, or Oba of Oyo town, whose authority from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century extended to great parts of the western Yoruba territory of old. For over a hundred years, starting from the early 18th Century, the Alaafins employed their great names and aura in upholding order…
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Social facilitation

Social – Psychology

Social facilitation is a motivation theory which asserts that people would do better in a task if there were other people watching. This idea was constructed from Norman Triplet’s work in in 1897, who noticed that people in bicycle races went faster when they were competing against each other directly than when they were racing…
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Gradualism

Philosophy – General

Gradualism is a principle of slow, stepwise change. The gradualist approach to privatization of government concerns has been argued to serve to spread the time within which the pains of the exercise may be felt and thereby reduce its impact. Sir Kitoyi Ajasa‘s belief that social and political stability depended upon a process of slow…
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Socialism

Government, Social – Welfare

Socialism is an ethical science and a universal set of principles conceived as a guide to progressive governance. It is a principle that militates against the aiding and abetting of private ownership of the means of production to forestall the exploitation of man by man. Socialism was the self-professed philosophy of Awolowo’s Action Group from…
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Alake

Culture – Others

Alake title literally means ‘Lord of Ake’, Ake being the principal quarter of the Egba town of Abeokuta that was established in 1830 east of Ogun River and 70 miles north of the coast. The concept of a single king did not exist among the Egba Yoruba sub-group until the ancient title of Alake, the…
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Suicidal behavior

Social – Psychology

Suicidal behavior, the tendency of committing oneself to an action that could cause death is a growing concern in many parts of the world. In a study, suicide behavior in Lagos was shown to be more prevalent among men than ladies, younger age groups were overpresented, people in interpersonal conflict, who have tendency to blame other…
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T.O.S. Benson

History – Political, Lifestyle – Others

Theophilus Owolabi Sobowale Benson was a Lagos lawyer and prominent member of Nigeria’s pre and post independence aristocracy. Born in Ikorodu in 1917, Benson lived for 91 years, a life that is remembered for high attainment and personal style. He attended CMS Grammar School, Lagos and after working briefly in the civil service as a…
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Chieftaincy

Culture – Others

Chieftaincy, the highly developed system through which leadership is conferred in pre-colonial Western Nigeria existed in several tiers; some military and some, civil. Associations such as the Ogboni, Tradesmen, craftsmen, or market women are usually the entities which serve as the authority conferring the titles of, to mention a few; Balogun, Otun, Osi, or Agbaakin…
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Dosunmu

Culture – Others, History – Political

Dosunmu, name spelt Docemo in the Victorian Lagos era, Oba of Lagos between 1853 and 1885. He was responsible for the cession of Lagos to the British crown, thereby making Lagos a colony. His denial, two years later, of this August 1861 deal earned him a levy and lost of his pension but more importantly,…
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