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Item Perception of women entrepreneurship in ancient Greek and traditional Yoruba societies(2021) Adebowale, B. A.Globally, economic growth and national development may be the result of the success registered by Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (SMEs). In the societies or nations where the intervention by SMEs is a thriving practice, credit often is given mainly to the male entrepreneurs while the contributions of their female counterparts hardly receives much robust consideration in existing literature. Thus, this paper takes a diachronic approach in explicating the perceptions and contributions of women. The study is delimited to the antiquated Grecian society and the Yoruba society of Nigeria in the pre-colonial and colonial periods and adopts a comparative hermeneutical approach in the analysis of the historical findings and textual materials peculiar to both societies. Its findings reveal that significant dichotomies existed in both societies in relation to the entrepreneurial activities of women. In Greece, women were inhibited by their cultural value to engage in entrepreneurship. The entrepreneurial activities they were allowed to carry out were more passive than active. Nonetheless, they excelled and provided stability at the home front and the nation Overall albeit on a micro-managed scale. On the other hand, Yoruba women in Nigeria were privileged to engage in entrepreneurial activities with minimal restrictions. This afforded them the opportunity to translate their business enterprises into money spinning ventures. With such wealth in their hands, they could conveniently delve into politics and have a telling influence in the political affairs of their various communities. The study therefore underscores the historicity that women in different societies have found a way to counter patriarchy through diligence, dexterity, creativity and innovation to ensure domestic stability and sustainable development in every society. Thus, women should not be perceived as belonging strictly to the 'other room’. Such perception is tantamount to a subtle denial of their pivotal contributions to economic development and socio-political advancement whether in the past or present timesItem Paedophilia in modern society a mirror of pederasty of Ancient Greece?(2021) Adebowale, B. A.As never before, sexual abuse is rife in modern human society. Tracing the beginnings of sexual perversions to ancient Greece where pederasty was institutionalised, this paper attempts a conceptual distillation between paedophilia and pederasty. Given that pederasty in ancient Greece was an institutionalised part of aristocracy, existing between an adult male, erastes, and a pre-adolescent boy, the eromenos, some scholars have argued that paedophilia is an offshoot of this Greek practice. These scholars make references to canonical philosophical writings by Plato, Xenophon, and Aristophanes inter alia as authority to prop their arguments for indulging the modern phenomena of paedophilia as well as homosexuality by extension. The arguments presented, in this study, bifurcates pederasty from paedophilia by drawing copiously from the sociological and psychological perspectives in deconstructing those widely held views on both sexual Orientations. The study reveals that the former is a norm that left a multiplier effect as the pederast mentee developed to the extent of becoming a pederast mentor, thereby promoting sustainable development in ancient Greece. The study concludes that both concepts exist on different orientational pedestals with pederasty to be lauded for its gains and paedophilia to be condemned for its evils against the innocent child victimItem A re-evaluation of the theme of fate in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Ola Rotimi's the Gods are not to blame(Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, 2020) Adebowale, B. A.Intertextuality presupposes the linkage of subjects, ideas and themes between and among texts. Although numerous scholars have carried out intertextual readings into various texts, only a few have delved principally into cosmological connectives within texts from the cultural perspective of fatalism. The universality of the theme of fatalism and its rootedness in virtually every religion around the world necessitates this work. This study, therefore, investigates the textual hybridisation and thematisation of apparently contrasting worldviews (Greek and Yoruba) in order to improve the body of existing intertextual literature on fatalism. This study is anchored on the philosophical concept of determinism. Two texts were purposively selected- Sophocles' Oedipus Rex (OR), a classical play, and Ola Rotimi's The Gods are not to Blame (TGB), a contemporary play, for contextual and intertextual study. The study finds that TGB shares more than superficial semblance with OR though textual variations exist between both. TGB is considered a perfect hybrid that thematically draws parallels from OR, foregrounding the integral and unique religio-cultural affinity that exists between the Yoruba people of Western Nigeria and the Greek of the Classical era. Fatalism, being a fundamental aspect of the ancient Greek cosmology, was often thematised in Classical Greek writings as reflected in the text, OR. The study then concludes that the Yoruba people, like the ancient Greek, acknowledge the important role of fate as determinism in human life and as a reality beyond the control of the individualItem Xenophobic sentiments: the meeting point of julio-claudian rome and ramaphosa’s South Africa(Xenophobic sentiments: the meeting point of julio-claudian rome and ramaphosa’s South Africa, 2020) Adekannbi, G. O.; Clinton, C.Migration of people to various places is a permanent feature of human history. For example, shifting from a nomadic economy to a system based on food production in the past allowed people to settle permanently in a place and hold claim to it. Such a situation is known to have induced creation of group identity and led to stereotype relationship between host communities and foreign migrants with far reaching effects. Xenophobia, an age old phenomenon, is one of the products of the stereotype. This paper goes back in time to review xenophobic sentiments in Rome during the reign of the Julio-Claudian emperors in which large numbers of foreign migrants were attracted to Rome due to the empire’s economic prosperity and opportunities for wealth creation. In doing this, the paper digs up the forms, causes, patterns, and consequences of xenophobic actions. Then, following an exploration of contemporary South-African xenophobic sentiments, which match closely with the Romans’, the work makes a comparative assessment to find sociological parallels between the ancient and modern states which share common hopes for the migrants. The paper particularly identifies xenophobia as a form of social depravity that requires all moral strength to root it out.