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- ItemOpen AccessThe Challenge of Underdevelopment and Poverty(Obafemi Awolowo University Press, 1996-02-27) Afonja, SimiThis inaugural lecture is a treatise on underdevelopment and poverty in Nigeria, Africa's largest, most populous and prosperous nation. The lecture summarises my concern to explain why some nations, industrialised and developed -and others are stagnant or retrogress.
- ItemOpen AccessGuns, Pens and Words: the Military, the Politicians and the Intelll Gentsia in the Process of Political Mobilisation(Obafemi Awolowo University Press, 1985-01-15) Odetola, T.OThe choice of a title as this one was not fortuitous; it was deliberate. Earlier I selected a very innocuous sounding title: "Political Mobilization and Development." My colleagues reminded me that this was an inaugural address and not a seminar paper and that my predecessors had selected such striking titles as, "All flesh is grass", "History and Society". So in this Great Ife tradition, I settled for "Guns, Pens and Words".... guns representing the military; pen, the intellectuals; and words, the politicians. Politicians, of course, these days have more than words, they have money. I do hope then that a title, starting with 'guns' is sufficiently pointed and striking.
- ItemOpen AccessAjobi and Ajogbe: Variations of the Theme of Sociation(Obafemi Awolowo University Press, 1983) Akiwowo, AkinsolaThe root words ajobi and ajogbe of alajobi and alajogbe have been translated into the English language as consanguinity and co-residentship. Both are variations on the theme of sociation. The lecture discussed sociation, characteristics of ajobi and ajogbe, and ajobi and ajogbe as variations on the theme of sociation. This subject is the direction that sociology may take as, a theoretical and an empirical discipline in Africa in general and Nigeria in particular.