<p>This is an African retelling of Euripides: an unnervingly topical story of a people and a beloved city destroyed by the brutality of war. The play was first performed in Lagos in 2003 under the distinguished director Chuck Mike, and subsequently toured the UK.</p>

Women of Owu

Literature & Fiction

Ọṣọfisan, Fẹmi

Dramas & Plays

Ibadan University Press

The politics of peasant groups in Western Nigeria (Ibadan social science series)

Beer, Christopher

Trade relations between the Bight of Benin and Bahia from the 17th to 19th century

Pierre Verger

The Ozidi saga

Tokabou Ojobolo

concerning the status of olodumare, idowu finds,yoruba theology emphasizes the unique status of olodumare.he is supreme over all heaven,acknowledged by all the divinities as the head to whom all authority and allegience is due.

Yoruba religion and medicine in Ibadan

Simpson, George Eaton

Religion & Spirituality

The author ranks as one of the foremost living traditional African storytellers - as recognised by the acclaim of his first book, The Palmvine Drinkard. This book includes seven folktales especially for young adults, but of universal appeal. Beautiful black and white ink drawings illustrate the tales whose cast of characters include humans, a goddess, an elephant woman, a boa constrictor and a shell-man.

Yoruba Folktales

Politics & Social Sciences

Tutuola, Amos

Social Sciences

This volume presents fifty years of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria's oldest and pre-eminent university, from its inception as a college of the University of London. The contributors are various existing and retired faculty professors, heads of the university's libraries, publishing house and printing press; from the university's administration, and former students. The essays are diverse and specific in their handling of the university's history; but all broadly document the common experience of the university's decline, and the enormous gulf between the present state of the university and the kind of institution its creators and ambassadors believe it should be. They reflect upon the earlier role of the university as an institutional of international renown and influential in shaping Nigeria's history; and the present state of depleted academic departments and inadequate libraries; and they describe how the university is suffering from the Africa-wide brain-drain and a chronic lack of funding. The esssays further demonstrate how the historical development of the university has largely rested upon the mostly detrimental and at times disastrous attitude and actions of the Nigerian State; and that the history of the university is inseparable from the history of the country; the university having become the intellectual equivalent of a marginalised Third World economy. The overall picture is not wholly one of gloom however. The contributors also propose directions the university may pursue to reverse the decline; and this publication itself represents a spirited rear-guard action.

Ibadan at Fifty, 1948-1998

History

Mojuetan, Benson Akutse

Africa

A collection of essays, commissioned to honour one of Nigeria's and Africa's most outstanding political scientists of his generation, brings together twenty six contri-butions from scholars of all generations, who all have connections with the University of Ibadan. These include: Wale Adebanwi, Adigun Agbaje, LaRay Denzer, L. Adele Jinadu, Richard Sklar, Rotimi Suberu and Adebayo Williams. The essays are organised into four sections; the structure, history, processes and dynamics of Nigeria's federal system, governance issues, the formulations and transformations of identity politics and global contexts of the production and reproductions of the Nigerian state and society.

Nigeria's Struggle for Democracy and Good Governance

Politics & Government

Tapestry Of Parasitism

Fagbemi, B. O.

Too Much Food For Thought, But Very Little For The Table

Lucas, Ephraim Olabode Olusegun

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