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The Effects of Harmful Traditional Practices on Women
The Effects of Harmful Traditional Practices on Women
Culture as a Catalyst for National Development: 'The Bende Experience'
Culture as a Catalyst for National Development: 'The Bende Experience'
Bende Youths Must Awaken the Spirit of Greatness in Them
Bende Youths Must Awaken the Spirit of Greatness in Them
POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMS IN NIGERIA AND CONSTANT INCREASE IN PETROLEUM UTOPIAN ASSUMPTION
POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMS IN NIGERIA AND CONSTANT INCREASE IN PETROLEUM UTOPIAN ASSUMPTION
INDIGEENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE ACADEMY IN AFRICA: THE CUPIP MODEL
INDIGEENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE ACADEMY IN AFRICA: THE CUPIP MODEL
THE OTONTI NDUKA MANDATE: From Tradition to Modernity.
THE OTONTI NDUKA MANDATE: From Tradition to Modernity.
Nigeria: Path to Unity and Stability Abuja National Constitutional Conference (1994-95)
Nigeria: Path to Unity and Stability Abuja National Constitutional Conference (1994-95)
THE OTONTI NDUKA MANDATE: From Tradition to Modernity.
THE OTONTI NDUKA MANDATE: From Tradition to Modernity.
The Rise and Fall of Social Studies in Nigerian Education System
The Rise and Fall of Social Studies in Nigerian Education System
Application of Experts Systems to Soil Conservation Planning
Application of Experts Systems to
Soil Conservation Planning
Macroeconomic Variables Volatility and Economic Growth in Nigeria (1970 - 2005)
Low output growth in Nigeria have been attributed to a riumber offacto~ssu ch as poor technology, demographic factors, social conditions, poor macroeccwomic policies, insufficient infrastructural facilities and high dependence on primary products What however, attracts lesser attention is the interface between output growth and
macroeconomic fluctuations. It is not only that output ~rowth is low but it fluctuates beyond the expectations of different macroeconomic analysts There have been varying rcsults among different existing empirical studies on the determinants of output growl11 in Nigeria.
Facilitating the training of teachers on the use of computers in teaching mathematics
The study was designed to examine the readiness of institutions that prepare teachers to facilitate the training of mathematics..
Mass Creativity and African Development
Widespread and growing poverty, unemployment, hunger, crime, and related crisis in African remain the single biggest embarrassment and challenge to the peoples of the continent, both at home and in Diaspora. African Heads of State and Government have come to the conclusion that it is time to rethink the continent’s development.
Literacy And Scholarship In Muslim West Africa In The Pre- colonial Period
It is one of the curious ironies of history that in modern times, the Muslim peoples of West Africa have often been labelled by their Christian countrymen as 'backward', 'uneducated' and even 'illiterate'. It may be explained that these terms are not to be understood in an absolute sense and indeed, the implicit assumption behind such remarks is that the Muslims are 'backward' in regard to European-inspired technology and science, that they are 'uneducated' in terms of a school system and curriculum derived from European models and 'illiterate' in regard to the ability to read and write a European language expressed in the Roman alphabet. These same people, however, may be able to read and write Arabic with ease and perhaps also exkess their mother tongue with the help of Arabic characters and may have been receiving instruction since childhood in a system which had its origins in Fez or Cairo a thousand years ago. Such persons belong to an in- tellectual tradition in West Africa which studied Logic and Prosody as well as the legal and theological sciences in 16th century Timbuktu; a tradition to which belonged a man such as Muhammad Rello who thanked the first European visitor to his court profusely for the gift of a copy of Euclid, since his own had recently been destroyed in a fire.' Until the turn of this century, the Muslims of West Africa represented, in general, the educated elite, for though, in terms of scientific and industrial advancement they were far behind the Europeans whose technology was advancing inland from the coasts, Muslim societies possessed and had possessed for centuries a technological instrument which gave them an advantage over other neighbouring societies and which these non-Muslim societies were often anxious to share- the technology of writing. In the first of these two lectures, I want to examine the origins of this technology in the West African context and the role which literacy has played in the history of West African Muslim societies.
