IAS Ibadan

Completed Research Works

• Notes on an Unusual Anthropomorphic Palm Kernel Head Necklace from the Northcote W. Thomas Collection.
• Northern Edo Bottletops: Evidence of Communal Art in the Thomas Collection.
• Metal Head Ornaments in the Metal Art History of Northern Edo Land.
• The Thomas Collection Factor in Benin Art History.

Research Works in Progress

• The Preservation and Restitution of Cultural Heritage: The Nigerian Case.
• Nigerian Painting before 1960.
• Northern Edo Traditional Children’s Toys.

Completed Research Works

• Egungun in the Performing Arts of the Yoruba.
• The Changing Phases of Gelede Performance at Ijio.
• Stagecraft Philosophy in the Plays of Wole Soyinka.
• Samuel Beckett and a New Theory of Tragic Drama.

Research Works in Progress

• Epa Dance-Drama among a North-Eastern Yoruba Sub-Tribe.
• The Role of Plastic Arts in the Theatrical Performances of West Africa.
• A Study of Yeats’s Theatre and His Idea of a National Theatre.
• A Book of Readings on Nigerian Drama.
• Research Coordination (Nigeria), UNESCO/PEN International Research into Literature Written in Minority Languages.

Research Works Completed

• Acquisition, Preservation and Analytical Study of Arabic Manuscripts of Ibadan Authorship.
• Arabic Source Material on Indigenous Medicine among Yoruba Muslim Clerics.
• The Imamate in Ibadan.
• Arguments and Counter-Arguments in Selected Works in Arabic by Nigerian Authors.
• The State of Arabic Manuscripts in Nigeria.

Research Works in Progress

• A Study of Scientific Writings by the Sokoto Jihad Leaders in the Arabic Collection of the University of Ibadan.
• A Study of Features of Nigerian Qur’anic Manuscripts.
• An Annotated Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Collection of the University of Ibadan (in Arabic).
• ‘Ajami Literary Works by Nigerian Scholars

Completed Research Works

• Mythopoesis and the Priestess of Esinmirin.
• Of Classics, the Classical, and So-called Classical Music in Nigeria.

Research Works in Progress

• Speaking in a Dead Tongue.
• Empire and the Textual Other: Orality, Literacy and the Curator.

Completed Research Works

• Shrines, Oath-Taking and Jurisprudence in Yoruba and Igbo Religions.
• African Indigenous Religion and the Nigerian Democratization Process.
• Traditional Treatment of Mental Health in Nigeria and Kenya.
• Building Bridges: Models for Christian-Muslim Relations in Nigeria.
• The Practice of Traditional Medicine.

Completed Research Works

• ‘There Was a Time’: Postcolonial Ecology and Mourning in Ngugi’s Wizard of the Crow, Carnegie Foundation, USA.
• ‘The Being that Animates all Things’: Cannibalization, Simulation and the Animation of Oral Performance in Ngugi’s Wizard of the Crow, Carnegie Foundation, USA.
• Travel Gone Awry: Cosmopolitan Love and Female Ordeals in Games Women Play, CODESRIA, Senegal.
• Chinua Achebe Residential Research Group Project, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Research Works in Progress

• Enchantments from the Wizard: Ngugi wa Thiong’o and the Postcolonial Imaginaries in Wizard of the Crow.
• ‘It’s Climate Change… that’s Everywhere’: Post-Apartheid Condition and the Intersection of Ecology and Migration in Gordimer’s No Time Like the Present.
• ‘Nobody Saw His Front, Nobody Saw His Back’: Trickster Phenomenon in Overlapping Cosmopolitanisms in Osuofia in London.

Completed Research Works

• Musical Preference of Secondary School Students in Ibadan North Local Government Area.
• Collection, Transcription and Analyses of Yoruba Folksongs for Educational Purposes.

Research Works in Progress

• Intervention Research to Strengthen the Capacity of Musical Arts Educators in Teaching Practice in Oyo and Ibadan Post-Primary Schools.
• Technologies of Some Yoruba Membranophonic and Idiophonic Instruments.
• An Assessment of the Implementation of the Cultural and Creative Arts (CCA) Curriculum in Primary Schools in Ibadan North-West Local Government Area, Ibadan.

Research Works Completed

• Paradigm Shift in Dramatic Rendition (Ita Omi-Oge). From Tradition to Modernity in Selected Communities in Nigeria.
• Perceptions of Gender Disability and Marriage in Yoruba Society of south-Western Nigeria.
• Social Protection and Women in the Informal Sector in Selected Rural Communities, Oyo State.
• Post-2015 Agenda and Monolithic Academia in Nigeria A Need for a Paradigm Shift.
• African Tattoo Tradition and the Masculine Turn in the Twenty-First Century. The Nigerian Experience.
• Crossing Safe? The Security and Safety of Women at the Aflao and Seme Borders.

Research Works in Progress

• Gender and the Labyrinth of Career in Higher Education in Ghana and Nigeria (DAAD).
• Meaning and the Globalization of Hair in Nigeria.
• Tradition versus Modernity and the Maternal Transition, of Pregnancy and Childhood in Yoruba Culture.
• Gender, Sexuality and Civil Politics in Contemporary Southern Nigeria.

Research Work Completed

• Truth, Nothing but the Performative Truth: Yoruba Radio Review of English Newspapers.

Research Works in Progress

• Feedback FM, Babel FM: News Broadcast, Media Policy and Creation of Radio with an Ear.
• The Public and the Dirty Linen: Aspects of the Grotesque in Public Display of Infirmities to Raise Funds.

Completed Research Works

• Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria and Beyond
• Political Communication in Africa
• African Philosophy and Gender Studies in African Studies
• Just War Theory from an African Womanist Perspective
• When the Rains are (Un)stopped: African Feminism and Green Democracy
• Gender and Hair Politics: An African Philosophical Analysis
• Hairiness and Hairlessness: An African Feminist View of Poverty
• On the Morality of enfranchising the African Diaspora
• Political Communication and the Nigerian Democratic Experiment: Critical Insights from Yoruba Philosophy

Research Works in Progress

• Feminist Readings of Political Communication in Africa
• Black Hair: Intrigues and Complications
• Gender Studies in Africa: Emerging and Imagined Trends
• A Moral and Gender Analysis of King Sunny Ade’s Juju Music
• Pluriversalism and Gender Studies Pedagogy in Africa

Completed Research Work

• Early Warning Systems in Africa: An Overview, Case Study, and Evaluative Criteria