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Item The aberrant Esie head as model: an insight into the styles and origin of the Esie stone carvings(2000) Pogoson, O. I.lfe is incontrovertibly the most important Yoruba town in terms of art, religion and culture, it is therefore advantaged as a possible source place to solve the problem of the enigma surrounding the Esie stone carvings.This hypothesis is pursed to the conclusion that lfe is the most likely place that could have conditioned the Esie stone carving in their present location. An aberrant stone head, the largest among the over 800 stone carvings found in Esie is stylistically and culturally compared and linked with other Yoruba stone carvings from lfe and indeed a group of naturalistically carved stones also identified among the Esie corpus. This leads to conclusion of an lfe impetus for the creation of the Esie stone carvings.Item Item Academic (Im)mobility: ecology of ethnographic research and knowledge production on Africans in China(CODESRIA, 2020) Adebayo, K. O.Since the emergence of China in the geopolitical and economic spaces of Africa, academics have followed China and African people moving in both directions and conducted on-the-ground, cross-border ethnographies. However, academics are not equally mobile. This auto ethnography analyses the intersections of ethnography, mobility and knowledge production on ‘Africans in China’ through a critical exploration of the contextual issues shaping the unequal participation of Africa-based researchers in the study of Africa(n)s in a non-African setting. Based on experiences before, during and after migration to Guangzhou city, I demonstrate that ‘being there,’ fetishised as ideal-type anthropology, conceals privilege and racial and power dynamics that constrain the practice of cross-border ethnography in the global South.Item African studies and the African identity: an essay on the theory of culture(1994) Layiwola, D.Item African theatre in performance: a festschrift in honour of Martin Banham(Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000) Layiwola, D.Item Africans in China: Guangdong and beyond(Routledge, 2019) Adebayo, K. O.Item Another reconsideration of the origin of the tsoede bronzes(1998) Pogoson, O. I.Item The archaeology of knowledge and the field of dramatic discourse(2008-12) Layiwola, D.I have taken my theme rather than my title from the philosophical discourses of Michel Foucault in his classic work. The Archaeology of Knowledge (1977). Foucault tries, rigorously and implacably, to contain the imperial study of this ancient and pre-historical field and discipline within the elastic limits of the history of ideas and the literary concept of the oeuvre. We know that archaeology as a concept and as a method is not a language as in the association of signs. It is at the same time a form of representation of a past in its longing for a settled, stable, laid down and abiding present and an anticipation of a future that is settled and ‘dead', yet real, perpetually haunting and compelling attention. As an intellectual empathizer with the field - cultural or archaeological -1 hope to bring in. within the framework of the history' of ideas, the value of preserved knowledge. I shall cite largely from literature, drama and history why archaeology will continue to be a dominant, if not a domineering conceptual science in the cause of our present centuryItem Aspect of theatrical circularity in Wale Ogunyemi’s dramaturgy(1993) Layiwola, D.Item Aspects of art, hierarchy and hegemony in the Igbo worldview(1995-10) Layiwola, D.Item C.L.R. James and his role in the history of African cultural and political movements(1988-10) Layiwola, D.Item The city state of Ibadan: texts and contexts(Institute of African Studies, 2015) Layiwola, D.Item Code of ethics and public morality in Nigeria: a development praxis(Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, 2014-09) Akanle, O.; Olutayo, A. O.; Adebayo, K.Nigeria today remains rooted in poverty and underdevelopment regardless of huge promises to deliver dividends of democracy to the people and jumpstart development in sustainable manners. Unfortunately, it is possible to trace the disconnections between promises and outcomes to critical governance and development contextualities of code of ethics, public morality and accountability in the country. Thus, this article explored the contours of these contextualities and x-rayed their existences, implications for development and sustainable pathwaysItem Cohabiting commerce in a transport hub: peoples as infrastructure in Lagos, Nigeria(Sage, 2019) Xiao, A. H.; Adebayo, K. O.Based on a case study of Iyana Ipaja, one of the largest transport hubs with a spacious motor park and the most vibrant markets in North Lagos, we elaborate on the nuances of interactions between commercial actors and various forms of infrastructure in the spatial and temporal senses. In terms of materiality and mobility of their businesses, commercial actors are categorised into three types, shopkeepers, stallholders and hawkers. They have extensive interactions with the objects with which they are attached (shops, stalls and goods), the physical infrastructures (vehicles, roads, bus stations and motor parks), and ‘people as infrastructure’ – a term coined by Simone – including drivers, passengers, passers-by and government agencies. We suggest that a modification to the concept of ‘peoples as infrastructure’ should help to articulate interactions among differently positioned actors. We argue that the localities and mobilities of commercial practices manifest spatial conviviality among peoples as infrastructure. The temporality of their commercial practices is embedded in the urban rhythm of Lagos and remediates the flows of people and vehicles through the spaces of Iyana Ipaja. The focus of commercial actors provides a new perspective to rethink grassroots spatial politics of motor parks in Nigeria. Moreover, this case study critically engages the theory of relationality of ‘people as infrastructure’ in urban Africa.Item The colonial experience and its asides: dance performances as historical indices in East and West Africa(Institute of African Studies University of Ibadan, 1990) Layiwola, D.Item Conceptualising African dance theatre in the context of African art and the humanities(Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, 2010) Layiwola, D.Item The contexts non-linear history essays in honour of Tekena Tamuno(Sefer Books, 2008) Layiwola, D.; Albert, O.; Muller, B.Item Creative endeavour and the Nigerian environment(Rodopi Bv Editions, 2001-12) Pogoson, O. I. Y.Item The cultural domains of Nigerians’ work ethics(Department of Sociology Faculty of the Social Sciences University of Ibadan Ibadan, Nigeria, 2012) Akanle, O.; Olutayo, S.; Adebayo, K.Item Culture and the burden of being and development in Africa(Segundo Selo, 2020) Layiwola, D.This plenary chapter seeks to interrogate two conceptual issues behind the problems of cultural and political development either in Africa as a continent or in any of its disparate parts or countries, whether it is Nigeria, the Sudan, Gambia, Kenya, Zaire or Zimbabwe: culture and development. In so doing, it politically situates the context by adapting two definitional keywords: structure and culture. In the exposition on culture, society and development, I shall borrow arguments and definitions from Claude Ake's theory of political development, Peter Ekeh's theory of social development and cultural theorists like Sule Bello and lshola Williams. The chapter will point out how culture and political events have not worked together in Nigeria and Africa as it should to produce anticipated development; why Nigeria must engage creative thinking and basic praxis to overcome the problems of underdevelopment; and concludes on whether development is still possible under the present political structure and culture. The chapter concludes on the grim question of whether the present debacle in Nigeria and Africa is not already a closed predicament. Though it closes on a pessimistic note, the chapter indicates that the only ray of hope is to continue to interrogate our human condition as the existential movement does. This being that existence not only precedes essence but that concrete human action for development is almost always preceded by historical anguish and disaster such as we presently have. That a closed predicament amounts to where we are now on a continent so blessed with human and material resources and yet much abused and thoroughly managerially bastardized.