21. BENIN AND THE MIDWEST REFERENDUM With the restoration of the indigenous monarchy on one hand Fraternity, opposed Gaius Obaseki’s election at owo. largely by nonYoruba-speaking peoples and in http://www.edo-nation.net/nowao1.htm

Content Links News Search ... Tourism The premier web site of Edo speaking people. Nation of people who are mostly located in the Midwestern part of Nigeria, Western Africa. BENIN AND THE MIDWEST REFERENDUM By Dr. Nowamagbe A. Omoigui, MD, MPH, FACC Chief Executive Officer Cardiovascular Care Group, PA Columbia, SC, USA Speech delivered on Friday, December 20, 2002 at the Oba Akenzua II Cultural Complex, Airport Road, Benin City on occasion of the Fifth Late Chief (Dr.) Jacob Uwadiae Egharevba (MBE) Memorial Lecture and Award Ceremony, under the distinguished Chairmanship of S. A. Asemota Esq. (SAN), sponsored by the Institute for Benin Studies. INTRODUCTION It is a great honor to me to be invited to address this gathering of important sons, daughters and friends of Benin on the occasion of the 5 th Chief (Dr.) Jacob Uwadiae Egharevba (MBE) memorial lecture. Therefore, I would like to express my profound appreciation to the Institute for Benin Studies, ably coordinated by Uyilawa Usuanlele. The Institute’s foresight and persistence in organizing this annual event rightly honors a deserving son of Benin, whose priceless historical scholarship in difficult circumstances has placed key aspects of our history as a people on record for present and future generations. In coming before you today, I am humbly following the path of more eminently qualified individuals before me.

22. NWFP-Digest-L on the traditional knowledge and resources of indigenous peoples, said Gladis for centuries the people of owo in Ondo sources of cheap protein to the people. http://www.mekonginfo.org/mrc_en/announce.nsf/0/1BC31A40BC2CB50747256BFF00184483

NWFP-Digest-L No. 6/02 Welcome to FAO's NWFP-Digest-L. a free e-mail journal that covers all aspects of non-wood forest products. A special thank you to all those who have shared information with us. Back issues of the Digest may be found on FAO's NWFP home page: www.fao.org/forestry/FOP/FOPW/NWFP/Digest/digest-e.stm IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Rattan glossary 2. Bamboo Juice, Beer and Medicine 3. Rosewood, a sweet aroma that could fade away 4. Klabin Introduces World's First FSC-Certified Cosmetics and Medicines 5. Research on medicinal plants used by the Krao Indians, Brazil 6. Peruvian farmers and indigenous people denounce patents on maca extract 7. Biopharming 8. WIPO moves toward "World" Patent System 9. Forest Insects and food importance in Owo, Ondo State (Nigeria) 10. Prosopis juliflora and related arboreal species: A monograph, technical manual, database and training course 11. Brazilian Sustainable Tourism Council created 12. Women in forestry 13. Vast, wild forests in Russia protected in historic conservation measure 14. Ginseng

23. Bibliography On African Traditional Religion of African traditional religion The owo experience, The in the study of African indigenous religion, Cahiers Ellis AB, The Yorubaspeaking peoples of the http://www.afrikaworld.net/afrel/atr_bibliography.htm

Updated: 17 October, 2002 Abbink J., "Ritual and Environment: The Mósit ceremony of the Ethiopian Me'en people," Journal of Religion in Africa , "Reading the entrails: analysis of an African divination discourse", Man Abimbola W., "The Place of African Traditional Religion in Contemporary Africa: The Yoruba Example" in Olupona, ed. Kingship, Religion and Rituals in a Nigerian community: a phenomenological study of Ondo Yoruba festivals . Stockholm,1991, 51-58. Abrahamsson H., The Origin of Death, Studies in African Mythology, Studia Ethnographica Upsaliensia III, Uppsala, 1951. Acheampong S.O., "Reconstructing the structure of Akan traditional religion," Mission Ackah C. A., Akan Ethics. A Study of the Moral Ideasand the Moral Behaviour of the Akan Tribes of Ghana, Accra, 1988. Achebe Chinua, "Chi in Igbo Cosmology", in In Morning Yet on creation day, N.Y., 1975. Achebe Chinwe, The World of the Ogbanje, Enugu, 1986. Adagala K., "Mother Nature, Patriarchal Cosmology & Gender" in Gilbert E.M., ed. Nairobi: Masaki Publishers.1992, 47-65.

24. OSITELU, Josiah, Nigeria, Church Of The Lord (Aladura) His mother hailed from owo, but his father Asaye to rivalry between the Yoruba and Igbo peoples and that in order to succeed among the indigenous population of http://www.gospelcom.net/dacb/stories/nigeria/oshitelu2_josiah.html

Ositelu, Josiah 1902 to 1966 Church of the Lord (Aladura) Nigeria Josiah Ositelu was the son of an illiterate pagan farmer from Ogere town in Ijebuland, about three miles west of Iperu. His mother hailed from Owo, but his father Asaye Dawodu belonged to the Lisa family, which is traditionally the second chieftaincy house in Ogere, and his grandfather was a highly respected person in the community. The siblings born before Josiah all died at a young age, allegedly through the evil forces of witches and so when he was conceived, his parents consulted an Ifa priest who assured them that he would survive. Josiah was born on May 15, 1902 and was called Ifakoya meaning "Ifa has avenged my cause" [1]. The Ifa priest prophesied that the boy would distinguish himself and would be endowed with spiritual authority and virtues. As Ositelu was growing into boyhood, his spiritual endowment and mental alertness made him a very unusual child. He was reported to have prophesied about the future, revealed unknown secrets from the past, read signs in the sky, detected witches, and to have had unusual dreams of being taught by holy beings [2]. His parents were anxious about these signs because they feared he might be under evil influence. Diviners however assured his parents that the signs were that of a great future, and also that Ositelu would lead both Europeans and Africans into the ways of the Lord. It was almost automatic in those days for any child who attended a church school to be baptized and become a member of the church. Consequently, Ositelu was baptized on August 28th, 1914 by the Anglican minister at Iperu, and took the Christian name Josiah. He loathed name given to him at birth (

25. AAA Newsletter25 of African Traditional Religion The owo Experience, The of the history of African peoples brought to the on the following topics indigenous Knowledge Systems http://www.newsouthassoc.com/newsletter25.html

African-American Archaeology Newsletter of the African-American Archaeology Network Applied Archaeology and History Associates, 615 Fairglen Lane, Annapolis, MD 21401: ISBN 1060-0671 Number 25, Fall 1999 John P. McCarthy, Editor Message from the Editor I have several items to bring to your attention at this time: 2) Subscription Renewals ­ Far too many of you have not renewed your subscription for 1999. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the newsletter is in rather dire financial shape. Please check your label - if says "98" after your name, this is your last newsletter unless you pay your 1999 fee. I also encourage everyone to renew for 2000 as soon as possible ­ see the next item. 4) Compilation Volume - A bound compilation of issues 1-25 of A-A A is in production for a January roll-out. In addition to copies of the first 25 issues of the newsletter, the compilation will include several specially commissioned essays and an index to major articles. I anticipate that the volume will sell for approximately $25.00. Stay tuned for more details as this project develops. 5) Contributions - We are always looking for substantive contributions to A-A A. Please consider the newsletter as your direct pipeline to the community of scholars with whom you most want to share the results of your work, "float trial balloons," etc.

26. Joseph Kenny OP: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN TROPICAL AFRICA, Chapter 3B Datings for owo and Benin artifacts begin slightly later thought of, and the presence of indigenous priests in Pedro da Cunha, the Warri people “know how to http://www.diafrica.org/nigeriaop/kenny/CCTA/CCTA3b.htm

THE EARLY EVANGELIZATION OF BENIN FURTHER REFLECTIONS Bodija Journal , n. 2 (1990), 71-75 The Middle Period of African Church history—between early North and East African, and the 19th-20th century missionary movement—is one of the least known but most fascinating episodes in the history of the Church.  I have presented the main events of this period in my book, A history of the Catholic Church in Tropical Africa, 1445-1850   Particularly intriguing is the discovery, when the Portuguese first came to Benin in the latter part of the 15th century, of evidence of previous Christian influence. Christian influence from the African hinterland João de Barros described a cross which the Benin king wore around his neck.  It was sent from the “Ogané”.  The Benin ambassador to the Ogané wore a similar cross.   That this cross is a Christian symbol fits well with its shape, as seen on carvings and bronzes, which is the Nubian cross, and with the presence of a chain of Christian influence and/or such crosses from Nubia right to Benin. The identity of the Ogané is more problematic.  De Barros thought he was the “Prester John” or emperor of Ethiopia.  Hodgkin

27. Center For African Studies | University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign Ojulowo oriki Ifa / lati owo agba awo, Oloye A. Fasina Philosophy of the Isoko people. 615.8820968 In275 indigenous knowledge and its uses in southern africa http://www.afrst.uiuc.edu/acqseptoct2000.html

african@uiuc.edu University of Illinois Library AFRICAN STUDIES ACQUISITION LIST September - October 2000) 015.669075 Sy77 Synopses of abstracts : Ph.D thesis 1993-1995 / edited by E.O. Lucas, B.O. Fagbemi and M. Fabunmi. Ibadan, Nigeria : Postgraduate School, University of Ibadan, [1995]. 2 v. 016.96 B421m Bemath, Abdul Samed. The Mazruiana collection : a comprehensive annotated bibliography of the published works of Ali A. Mazrui, 1962-1997. New Delhi : Sterling Publishers, c1998. xiii, 348 p. 016.963 Ad11t 25th anniversary : IDR publications / IDR, Institute of Development Research. [Addis Ababa] : Addis Ababa University, 1998. 67 p. 016.96690072 Ak55h Akinbode, Rahmon O. Historial research in Nigeria : index to articles in Journal of Historical Society of Nigeria (JHSN) and bibliography of Nigerian books and monographs on history (1956-2000 A.D.) / by Rahmon O. Akinbode and Oluranti Olumoroti. Ibadan : Options Book and Information Services, 1999. 107 p. 079.669 P542p Phillips, Adedotun O. Political communication through newspaper advertisement : the case of the 1999 presidential election in Nigeria / 'Dotun Phillips, Nyemutu Roberts, Solomon Akhere Benjamin. Ibadan : Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, c1999. iv, 50 p.

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"Deji of Akure, Part 2": Ondo State Government Clearly in Limbo About What to do Now! By Dr. Wunmi Akintide WUMIONE@aol.com By the time the Awolowo Government Chieftaincy Declaration was gazetted into law in 1958, Oba Ademuagun was already the Deji-in-Council. He had immediately challenged in Court, the attempt to break up the only Asodeboyede Ruling House into more ruling Houses as a contravention of Akure tradition and custom. He had particularly stressed the "omo ori Ite" "Born to a ruling Deji " clause, as a sacrosanct provision that must be upheld. Many known princes from the Adesida line and from the other branches of Asodeboyede in particular had come out to challenge Ademuagun's position on that by claiming he was only trying to bar the other members of the Asodeboyede Ruling House from ever becoming a Deji in Akure. Even his half brothers and their grand children from the same father like my self and Prince Adewole Adesida, among others, were quite unhappy that the "omo ori ite" clause was probably a contraption by Ademuagun to narrow down the selection of a future Deji to his direct children only. It was a battle that dragged on till Oba Ademuagun had made his transition in 1973 at 48. The same controversy was part of what had delayed the selection of Oba Adelegan Adesida till 1975 when Governor Jemibewon in an act of courage and poetic justice had simply set aside the Justice Adenekan Ademola Junior Commission of Inquiry his Government had set up to nullify the selection of Oba Adelegan, and to start the whole process all over again just to give the late Prince Adebobajo Adesida another chance to undo what the king makers had already done.

30. Plurabelle - Commonwealth Studies Empire and Others British Encounters with indigenous peoples, 16001850. Silva, Eduardo Prince of the People. Yoruba Iwe-Karun Alawiye, Lati owo JF Odunjo. http://www.plurabelle.co.uk/catalog/common.html

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http://www.sociology.org/article.css http://www.icaap.org/graphics/quill1.jpg http://www.sociology.org/content/vol003.002/kallen.html A Question of Rights / A Question of Power This paper will attempt to demonstrate that cyberhate messages promoted on the Internet by organized political and religious hate groups incite hatred and promote harmful action against racial, ethnocultural, religious and same-sex oriented minorities. The author's analysis of racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic cyberhate messages will provide empirical evidence to support the thesis that, by manipulating deeply held invalidation myths to provide "evidence" for their arguments, high tech hate mongers incite virulent hatred of and harmful action toward targeted minorities. By so doing, high tech hate-mongering violates minority members' human rights to dignity and equality by denying their fundamental freedom from group defamation and harassment. Evelyn Kallen York University http://www.sociology.org/ Athabasca University 1 University Drive Athabasca Alberta SOG OWO mikes@athabascau.ca

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33. Thoughts On The Atlantic Slave Trade When Africans practiced indigenous servitude, I’m not sure the proud Kingdom of the Benin people was anything to peruse this Yoruba anecdote O nwa owo lo, o http://www.westafricareview.com/war/vol1.2/vol1.2a/NaAllah.html

West Africa Review (2000) ISSN: 1525-4488 Thoughts on the Atlantic Slave Trade: the Roles of Africans and the Issue of Apology for Slavery Who deserves an apology for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade? Skip Gates, in his Wonders of the African World Now, who would apologize to continental Africans who lost their brothers and sisters to slavery, to the wife whose husband was sold away and forcefully removed to European and American plantations? To those whose cousins, aunts and nephews were massacred and dumped in oceans for ocean animals to eat. Who would apologize to people whose aso ara (Gates starts this portion by introducing some natives as dark-skinned slaves, and others as light-skinned masters. This was at Mopti, a market town between Bamako and Timbuktu). I grew up constantly hearing a powerful Yoruba adage in my multicultural, multiethnic Ilorin: Again, I am not about to deny that Africans practiced a kind of servitude before the European intrusion. However, as Ali Mazrui said in his documentary, The Africans: A Triple Heritage , the degree of callousness of the European enslavement of Africans was unknown to Africans. Let me go once again to Yoruba rhetoric.

34. MSN Encarta - African Art And Architecture the architecture in Whydah, where indigenous mudbrick the inhabitants Arab traders, rulers, and common people. The Olowo Palace in owo, southeastern Nigeria http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761574805_3/African_Art_and_Architecture.htm

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1999 - Present SF Ethnic dance festival 1999 June 11 - 13, 1999 June 18 - 20, 1999 June 25 - 27, 1999 June 11 - 13, 1999 "Dancing dialects" connect Old World traditions and the contemporary Bay Area. First-generation immigrants preserve culture in their central roles as teachers, dancers and musicians. Through the language of world dance, they express the memories and ideals of their homelands. Chung Ngai Dance Troupe Colorful Malaysian-Chinese lions dance and perform acrobatics to the pulsating rhythm of drums, gongs and cymbals. Liu and Han Chinese Dance Elegant pas-de-deux derived from Chinese opera tradition, based on the tale of hidden lovers, an Asian Romeo and Juliet story. Chitresh Das Dance Company Pure dance, in the classical kathak style of the Lucknow school of northern India, choreographed by the inimitable Chitresh Das and danced with subtle grace and „lan by a trio of accomplished women. Harsanari The flirtatious modern jaipongan dance of Sunda (West Java), combining elements of male martial arts and female seductive court dance, is beautifully executed by the company under the leadership of Michael Ogi, in a piece choreographed by Sri Susilowati. Kalanjali: Dances of India Kanchis Folkloric Dance Group A bullfight and Incan-based indigenous ceremonial dance transports us to the Peruvian Andes where the fiesta atmosphere is contagious and wondrous music fills the air.

36. Websitecgore.dircon.co.uk The ImpluviumCourtyard (Oto-Eghodo) in indigenous Benin Architecture Iwu The Body Markings of the Edo People, Benin City Ashara, MB, 1951, History of owo, owo. http://www.cgore.dircon.co.uk/a1a.htm

Website: cgore.dircon.co.uk Author: Dr.Charles Gore A B C D E ... W-Z EDO BIBLIOGRAPHY Anon., 1823, Article in the Royal Gold Coast Gazette, No.21, Vol.1, March 25th. Anon., 1966, Benin Art and Artists, Nigeria Today, 9, 7-8. Anon., 1947, Benin Ebony Carvers, Nigerian Field, 12, 2. Anon., 1898, Cast Metal Work from Benin, Nature, Vol.58, July 7th. Anon., 1556, Description of a Voyage from Lisbona to the Isalnd of Sao Thome Written by an Anonymous Portuguese Pilot, (ed.) Rasmusio G.B., Navigationi e Viaggi, I. Venice (and in (ed.) Blake, J.W., Europeans in West Africa 1450-1560, Vol.1, London: Hakluyt Society, 1942). Anon., n.d., Extracts from the London Gazette, Friday May 7th 1897, Archives of Museum of Mankind, Benin B II Folder. Anon., 1956, Mud Shrines of Olokun, Nigeria Magazine, No.50. Anon., 1953, A New Carver (Felix Idubor of Nigeria), Nigeria Magazine, 41. Anon., n.d., Papers Relating to the Massacre of British Officials near Benin and the Consequent Punitive Expedition Presented to Both Houses of Parliament of her Majesty August 1897, Archives, Manchester Museum. Anon., 1949, The Recovery of Benin Antiquities, Nigeria Magazine, 32.

37. Center For African And African American Studies Egun, Ijebu, Ekiti, Ilaje, Ikale, owo, Akoko, Ondo fact that virtually all the indigenous inhabitants of influenced the historical development of Yoruba people. http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/caaas/events/past_event/goto/events/dt_alao_1-2

Jester Center A232A; Austin, TX 78705 :: (512) 471-1784 Fax (512) 471-1798 Main Menu Home About the Center Academic Programs Courses ... Site Map Upcoming Events To all the Black Graduates of 2004, CONGRATULATIONS!! The Center would like to thank everyone who came out and participated with the Center. Your continued support is greatly appreciated and hope to be repeated for the 04-05 school year. Click here to see more upcoming events for 2004! Calendar of Events Current Events Past Events Conferences News ... News Archives YORUBA: AN ENDURING LEGACY AKIN ALAO CENTER FOR AFRICAN AND AFRICAN –AMERICAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN. Friday, January 24, 2003 ::Jump to Footnotes:: Preliminary statements on the Yoruba The Yoruba as an ethnic and cultural group is one of the most researched ethnic groups in the world. By 1976, the available literature on the Yoruba, despite many omissions, numbered 3,488 items, an unrivalled feat in sub-Saharan Africa. A Yoruba civilization with a set of ideas, values, practices, philosophical thought, beliefs, traditions, institutions, material goods and technologies is well established and never in doubt. Concrete historical realities show that the Yoruba possess a rich civilization that is comparable with other civilizations of the world. The major aspects of this culture are expressed in visible attributes and in sublime values. The material culture is exhibited in commerce, manufacturing technology, arts and crafts and of course music and dance. Yoruba values are best seen in respect for elders and constituted authorities, honesty, integrity, diligence and a profound religious belief system.

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39. Section II: Development And Applications Of Rapid Assessment Procedures In Afric food security and nutrition in owo LGA, Ondo Bringing family planning to the people Proceedings of a distribution and alternative delivery systems in africa. http://www.unu.edu/unupress/food2/UIN08E/uin08e0a.htm

Contents Previous Next Section II: Development and applications of rapid assessment procedures in Africa, Asia and the Americas 6. Rapid assessment methodologies: Application to health and nutrition programmes in Africa 7. Understanding infant feeding practices: Qualitative research methodologies used in the weaning project 8. The use of RAP in the assessment of growth monitoring and promotion in north Sulawesi: Indonesia 9. Applying RAP in Cape Verde, Africa and in poor areas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ... 22. The relevance of rapid assessment procedures for overcoming hunger in the 1990s 6. Rapid assessment methodologies: Application to health and nutrition programmes in Africa Main features of RAP Users of RAP Applications of RAP to primary health care programmes RAP as a tool for formative research ... List of acronyms By Simi A. Afonja Simi A. Afonja is affiliated with Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria The paper by Simi Afonja, a member of the first group of RAP investigators, reviews the application in Africa of the original guidelines to the evaluation of health-related programmes. She describes RAP as slowly penetrating the planning and implementation strategies of governmental and pare-governmental agencies. According to Afonja, RAP methodologies are being used successfully in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Lesotho, to evaluate and improve family planning programmes of the World Bank, UNFPA, IPPF, and others. In Nigeria, Liberia, Kenya, Zaire, Malawi, and Somalia, RAP was used to evaluate immunization programmes; and in Kenya, Nigeria, and Niger for academic research. Afonja's review at the Conference expanded the generally held view of RAP use in Africa. She concluded with a summary of the positive contributions that RAP has made in Africa and a plea that it be formalized to a greater extent. - Eds.

40. CHAPTER IV Figure 14 owo ti. It has become clear from the preceding discussion that in the indigenous Ghanaian society, the clothes that people wear, the stools http://www.crvp.org/book/Series02/II-1/chapter_iv.htm

CHAPTER IV AFRICAN SYMBOLS AND PROVERBS AS SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH N. K. DZOBO The purpose of this chapter is not to explore in detail the indigenous symbol system of Africa, but to discuss individual groups of symbols as sources of insight into African orientations to life. Many people regret the fact that, besides Egypt, the rest of Africa has not invented an alphabetic system. They overlook the fact that Africans have been using both visual and oral "picture words" for a considerable time to express, transmit and store their thoughts, emotions and attitudes. All over Africa, visual images and ordinary objects are used symbolically to communicate knowledge, feelings and values. As symbols play such an important role in the African conception of reality, a sound understanding of African patterns of thought and feeling requires an appreciation of the nature and function of symbolism as a medium of communication in African culture. CONCERNING THE USES OF SIGNS AND SYMBOLS Because the nature and role of signs and symbols in the process of transmitting information are easily confused, a clear notion of the difference in the way they are used in communication is necessary for appreciating the cognitive value of indigenous symbols. Natural Signs For our purpose it is necessary to identify two main types of signs, namely

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