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Prof. Dr. George Olusola Ajibade

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsEthnology, European Ethnology
KeywordsWomen, Empowerment, Marriage Rites and Rituals, Oral Literature and Poetry, Sociology of Literature

Current contact address

CountryNigeria
CityIle-Ife
InstitutionObafemi Awolowo University
InstituteDepartment of African Language and Literatures

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Gudrun MieheLehrstuhl für Afrikanistik I, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth
Dr. Anja OedInstitut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz
Prof. Dr. Dymitr IbriszimowLehrstuhl für Afrikanistik II, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2005

Program(s)

2004Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2023Ajibade George Olusola: A Hermeneutic Analysis of Selected Yorùbá Pentecostal Songs. In: Yorùbá Studies Reviews, 8, 2023, 1-25
2021Ajayi, O.T. and Ajibade George Olusola: Itupale Asayan Oriki Awon Eranko. In: Yorùbá Studies Reviews, 6, 2021, 209-234
2021Perry, M., Armstrong, D. M., Chinkonda, B. E., Kagolobya, R., Lekoko, R. N., & Ajibade, G. O. Whose Crisis? COVID-19 Explored through Arts and Cultural Practices of African Communities. In: Open Access Series in Informatics, 7, 2021, 1-11
2020Ajibade George Olusola: A Socio-cultural Appraisal of Yorùbá Kegites’ Songs. In: Yorùbá Studies Reviews, 5, 2020, 39-54
2020Fakayode and Ajibade George Olusola: A Socio-cultural Relevance of Beads among the Yorùbá. In: Ife Journal of Languages and Literatures, 2, 2020, 20-43
2019Ajibade George Olusola: Water Symbolism in Yorùbá Folklore and Culture. In: Yorùbá Studies Reviews, 4, 2019, 99-123
2019Ajibade George Olusola: Yorùbá Folklore: Peoples’ Pulse and Imaginations. Ile-Ife. Obafemi Awolowo University Press, 2019
2017George Olusola Ajibade: ?àngó’s Thunder: Poetic Challenges to Islam and Christianity. In: Nolte Insa Et al, Beyond Religious Tolerance: Muslim, Christian and Traditionalist Encounters in an African Town. Boydell and Brewer, 2017. 75-95
2017George Olusola Ajibade: Cults, Secret Societies and Fraternities. In: Falola Toyin and Akintunde Akinyemi, Culture and Customs of the Yoruba. Pan-African University Press, 2017. 721-730
2016George Olusola Ajibade: Gender. In: Falola Toyin and Akintunde Akinyemi, Encyclopedia of the Yoruba. Indiana University Press, 2016. 137-138
2015George Olusola Ajibade: Drama, Poetry and Ritual in Zangbeto Festival of the Ogu People of Badagry. In: David Oluwagbemiga Ogungbile, African Indigenous Religious Traditions in Local and Global Contexts, Perspectives on Nigeria, A Festschrift in Honour of Jacob K. Olupona. Malthouse Press Limited, 2015. 255-270
2015George Olusola Ajibade: Sparks of Resistance, Flames of Change: Orature in Reconciliation and Conflict Management among the Yoruba. In: Akanmu G. Adebayo, Brandon D. Lundy, Jesse J. Benjamin and Joseph Kingsley Adjei, Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies in West Africa: Beyond Right and Wrong. Lexington Books, 2015. 211-231
2014George Olusola Ajibade: African Language, Literature and Culture in Transition: The Example of Yoruba. In: Oloruntoba-Oju and Kirsten Holst Petersen, Culture and the Contemporary African. Utgiven av Recito Forlag, 2014. 322-345
2013George Olusola Ajibade: The Portrait of Omoluabi in ?dúnj?’s Àk?j?pò? Ewì Aládùn. In: Ife Journal of Languages and Literatures, 2013, 83-105
2013George Olusola Ajibade: Theorizing Body in Yoruba Cosmology: A Socio-Cultural and Literary Appraisal. In: Uwasomba C., M. Mosobalaje and O. Coker, Existentialism, Literature and the Humanities in Africa. Cullier Verlag, 2013. 460-478
2012George Olusola Ajibade: Same-Sex in Yorùbá Culture and Orature. In: Journal of Homosexuality (JH), 2012, 965-983
2012George Olusola Ajibade: The Yoruba Oral Artists and their use of Word (Ọ̀RỌ̀). In: Yoruba: Journal of the Yoruba Studies Association of Nigeria, 2012, 30-62
2012George Olusola Ajibade: The Yoruba Oral Artists and their use of Word (Ò?RÒ?). In: Yoruba: Journal of the Yoruba Studies Association of Nigeria, 2012, 30-62
2012George Olusola Ajibade: Yoruba Cultural Responses to Islam in Proverbs. In: Ife Journal of Religions, 2012, 72-99
2011George Olusola Ajibade: Endogenous and Exogenous Factors in National Development: Inferences from the Metaphor of Witchcraft (Àjẹ́) in Túbọ̀sún Ọládàpọ̀’s Poetry. In: Tydskrifvir Letterkunde: A Journal for African Literature, 2011, 167-183
2011George Olusola Ajibade: Violence in Dialogue: Yorùbá Women in Actions. In: Cahiers d’études africaines, 2011, 847-871
2009George Olusola Ajibade: Finding Female Voice: A Socio-Cultural Appraisal of Yoruba Nuptial Poetry. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2009
2009George Olusola Ajibade: Sàngó's Eéríndínlógún Divinatory System. In: Tisken Joel, Toyin Falola and Akinyemi Akintunde, Sàngó in Africa and the African Diaspora. Indiana University Press, 2009. 111-132
2008George Olusola Ajibade: Depiction of Sexuality in Yorùbá Oral Poetry. In: Merril D. Smith The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, and Sexuality Through History: The Colonial and Revolutionary Age. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc, 2008. 262-264
2008George Olusola Ajibade: Representation of Gender Discourse in the Poetry of Akínwùmí Isola. In: Akinyemi Akintunde and Toyin Falola, Emerging Perspectives on Akinwumi Isola . Africa World Press/The Red Sea Press, 2008. 273-287
2007George Olusola Ajibade: New Wine in Old Cups: Postcolonial Performance of Christian Music in Yorùbá Land. In: Studies in World Christianity, 2007, 105-126
2006George Olusola Ajibade: Animals in the Yoruba Traditional Worldview. In: Folklore , 2006, 155-172
2006George Olusola Ajibade: Inscriptions of Ethics of Labour and Productivity in Yorùbá Proverbs. In: Proverbiums, 2006, 31-48
2006George Olusola Ajibade: Religious Orientation, Space Transformation and Power Relations among the Southwestern Yorùbá of Nigeria. In: Dialogue and Alliance, 2006, 73-103
2005George Olusola Ajibade and J.K. Olupona: Ẹkún Ìyàwó: Bridal Tears in Marriage Rites of Passage among the Ọ̀yọ́ Yorùbá of Nigeria. In: Kimberly C. Patton and John S. Hawley, Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religions Imagination. Princeton University Press, 2005. 165-177
2005George Olusola Ajibade: A Socio-cultural Study of Àbíkú Songs in Yorùbá land. In: Ntama Journal of African Music and Popular Culture, 2005, 1-17
2005George Olusola Ajibade: Hearthstones: Religion, Ethics and Medicine in Healing Process in the Traditional Yorùbá Society. In: Nicolini Beatrice Magical Practices, Witchcraft, and Warfare in the African Continent (XIX-XX Century). Edwin Mellen Press, 2005. 193-213
2005George Olusola Ajibade: Is there no Man with Penis in this Land? Eroticism and Performance in Yorùbá Nuptial Songs. In: African Study Monographs, 2005, 99-113
2005George Olusola Ajibade: Multifaces of Word in Yorùbá Orature. In: Journal of Language and Literature, 2005, 20-39
2005George Olusola Ajibade: Negotiating Performance: Osun in the Verbal and Visual Metaphors. University of Bayreuth, 2005
2005George Olusola Ajibade: Yorùbá Men, Yorùbá Women. In: Adam Jones, Men of the Global South, A Reader. Zed Books, 2005. 375-376
2004George Olusola Ajibade: Inanimate Animated: Synecdoche in Yorùbá Traditional Medicine. In: Áfricarevista Do Centro De Estudos Africanos , 2004, 343-348
2004George Olusola Ajibade: The Role of Yorùbá Traditional Birth Attendants in the Global health Care Delivery. In: Sola Akinrinade, Modupe Kolawole, Ibiyemi Mojola, and David O. Ogungbile, Locating the Local in the Global: Voices on a Globalised Nigeria. Obafemi Awolowo University Press, 2004. 121-135
2004George Olusola Ajibade: Ìbálé: Perception of Women's Pre-marital Virginity among Yorùbá. In: Aransi Isiaka Olalekan, Local Government and Culture in Nigeria. The Chapel Hill Press 2004. 238-247
2001George Olusola Ajibade: A Sociological Analysis of Yorùbá Male Personal Oríkì (Oríkì Àbísọ). In: Ife Journal of Theory and Research in Education (IJOTRE), 2001, 90-96
1999George Olusola Ajibade: Yorùbá Women Govern Their Men: A Socio-religious Approach to Feminism. In: Ife Social Sciences Review, 1999, 194-203
1998George Olusola Ajibade: The Sociology of Yorùbá Hunter Genres. In: Journal of the Nigerian Anthropological and Sociological Association, 1998, 11-20