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Item Ibadan 1960: creativity and the collective impromptu(Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, 2015) Layiwola, D.Item Ibadan: its beginnings to the close of the 20th century: the performing arts and the changing identity of an African subgroup(Institute of African Studies, 2015) Layiwola, D.Item The city state of Ibadan: texts and contexts(Institute of African Studies, 2015) 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 Culture, globalisation and national development(Institute of Cultural Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, 2014) Layiwola, D.In several publications, CLR James, the Trinidadian Pan-Africanist and writer, affirms that persons of African descent in the new world squarely belong in the historiography of the Western world and now have a Western identity. To this end, their empirical, positivist world is Western, since then- day to day living is now in their various nationalities which are geographically situated in the Northern hemisphere. As a researcher and culturalist, one is inspired to seek confirmation or denial of this assertion, since the speaker was himself, both a Caribbean citizen and a Pan-Africanist. However, CLR James’s assertion, apart from raising both identity and methodological questions, implies that we live in a plural world where we have multiple clustered identities. The notion of being African also encompasses the notion of being larger than Africa. The whole enterprise of Diaspora Studies must, therefore, invent such principles and methods that go beyond the nonnative or given parameters that we are hitherto used to. In the present enterprise, the study of history automatically invokes the excavation of African and Diaspora philosophy and psychoanalysis. It is in this form of advocacy that we can enrich that which sees itself as either African or diasporic. On a global scale, we should be able to apply identity categorization to who we are in our particular as well as various nations. In Nigeria, for instance, how do we claim to be a member of our ethnic group as well as a citizen of Nigeria? It is not a question of which comes first, but which supersedes the other on each given occasionItem One hundred years of Nigeria’s history: dance and society in an era of instability(2015-06) Layiwola, D.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.Item The Nigerian nation and her centenary: past, present, future(2014-01-18) Layiwola, D.Item Daniel Fagunwa and the Legacy of Yoruba oral tradition(Bookcraft, 2017) Layiwola, D.Item The home video industry and Nigeria’s cultural development(University Press PLC, 2014) Layiwola, D.