11 research outputs found
Images of Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
No full textFieldwork Team: Dr. Mustapha Hashim Kurfi (Principal Investigator), Hauwa Usman (Local Project Manager), Alhaji Abubakar Maikudi Aishat (General Field Facilitator). Technical Team: Prof. Fallou Ngom (Project Director and former Director of the African Studies Center), and Eleni Castrol (Technical Lead, BU Libraries). These collections on Gender in Nigerian Ajami Manuscripts are copied as part of the African Studies Center’s African Ajami Library. Access Condition and Copyright: These materials are subject to copyright. All rights reserved to the author. For use, distribution or reproduction contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]). Required Citation: Kurfi, M. H., Hauwa U., Ngom, F., and Castro, E. (2020). African Ajami Library: Gender in Nigerian Ajami Manuscripts. Boston: Boston University Libraries: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/41953. For Inquiries: Please Contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]).Photographs of Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Igbesi Aiye Chief Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (The life and times of Chief Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti)
No full textThe entire manuscript is available for download as a single PDF file. Higher-resolution images may be available upon request. For technical assistance, please contact [email protected]. Fieldwork Team: Dr. Mustapha Hashim Kurfi (Principal Investigator), Hauwa Usman (Local Project Manager), Alhaji Abubakar Maikudi Aishat (General Field Facilitator). Technical Team: Prof. Fallou Ngom (Project Director and the Former Director of African Studies Center), and Eleni Castro (Technical Lead, BU Libraries). These collections of Gender in Nigerian Ajami Manuscripts are copied as part of the African Studies Center’s Ajami Library.
Access Condition and Copyright: These materials are subject to copyright. All rights reserved to the author. For use, distribution or reproduction contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]).
Materials in this web edition may be cited as: Kurfi, M. H., Hauwa U., Ngom, F., and Castro, E. (2020). African Ajami Library: Gender in Nigerian Ajami Manuscripts. Boston: Boston University Libraries: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/41953. For Inquiries: Please Contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]).Provenance / Custodial history: This manuscript is owned by Sheikh Umar Mustapha Hajji who wrote it in 2019. The manuscript is complete and is in its original form. The writer used the Mashriqi script.This Yoruba Ajami text written in 2020 is a biography of Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a Nigerian activist, feminist, and the first woman in Abeokuta to drive a car. She is recognized as the first female Nigerian political activist. She is lovingly called as “The Mother of Africa.” Her full name is Francis Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas. Mrs. Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was born on October 25, 1900 to Lucretia Phyllis Omoyeni Adeosulu and Daniel Olumeyuwa Thomas. She attended the Abeokuta Grammar School and completed her education in England. She returned to Nigeria and became a teacher. Chief Funmilayo was then married to Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti in 1925. She became the leader of the Nigerian Union of Students and later joined the Nigerian Union of Teachers. This Anjemi text (Ajami in Yoruba) also highlights Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti's educational, social, and political struggles as an activist, politician, and educator in Nigeria who fought for gender equality and started a campaign to help Nigerian women obtain the right to drive a car. She created the Commoners' People's Party to challenge the ruling National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC). During the Cold War, Funmilayo Kuti traveled to several countries of the Eastern Bloc, including USSR, China and Hungary. Mao Zedong met with her in 1956. She was one of the most influential people who negotiated for the independence of her country with British authorities. She died at 77 after receiving injuries from a military raid on her family property. Chief Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti is the mother of the renowned Nigerian musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti (October 15, 1938–August 2, 1997) who championed Afrobeat music.The contents of this collection were developed with support of the Title VI National Resource Center grant # P015A180164 from the U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government
Erratum
No full textCervical Cancer and Human Papilloma Virus Knowledge and Acceptance of Vaccination among Medical Students in Southwest NigeriaArticle first published in March 2015 (http://www.ajrh.info/home/issues.php?issue=current) and cited as : Cervical Cancer and Human Papilloma Virus Knowledge and Acceptance of Vaccination among Medical Students in Southwest Nigeria. Funmilayo F. Adejuyigbe , Balogun R. Balogun , Adekemi O. Sekoni and Adebukola A. Adegbola.The name of the corresponding author in the earlier publication was wrongly spelt. The complete name of the corresponding author is now correctly spelt in this publication.
Data warehousing with SAP business warehouse : Discussing SAP-Centria NGL Pilot2 Project and Experts’ Insights from CGI Suomi Oy, Fujitsu Finland Oy and Neomore Consulting Oy
No full textHow can one derive meaningful information from a huge set of raw data? This project provided an overall picture of data warehousing with SAP Business Warehouse (BW) systems. That is, how data is being gathered, the processes this data goes through to become understandable information, and the biggest challenges being faced during this processing and solution suggestions.
The aim of this thesis was to explain data warehousing procedures, from data collection till querying, with SAP BW/4HANA from the experiences gathered from SAP-Centria Next-Gen Lab Bike Sharing Project. This project gives insight into data warehousing, its meaning, benefits and its elements.
The author also carried out qualitative research using a semi-structured interview. The purpose of the interview was to gain insights into the essence of data warehousing and how SAP BW systems are used to meet the requirements of data warehousing. For this purpose, senior SAP BW consultants whose expertise area also covers helping organizations with implementation and support of the SAP BW systems were interviewed. Topics discussed included needs for Data Warehousing, implementation definition and developments, SAP BW processes, challenges faced, solution suggestions and if from past experiences clients have used information generated from data analysis to organizations’ advantages. Gaining experts’ insights through the interview helped to see the correlation between the NGL Pilot2 data warehousing tasks and real-work experiences.
This project also discussed the biggest challenges students faced during the NGL Pilot2 program and challenges from the experts’ perspectives with respect to Data Warehousing using SAP BW systems. The project gave solution suggestions to these problems. Other theoretical materials intended for this project included reports from the Pilot2 project in the Next-Gen Lab, scholarly books and online resources, relative to the subject matter
A Review of the Nigerian National Health Policy on Injection Safety and Healthcare Waste Management
No full textBackground: Exposure to healthcare wastes increases the risk of transmission of blood-borne infections. Nigeria previously lacked an enabling environment for healthcare waste management, as it did not have a national healthcare waste management policy. Thus, the National policy on injection safety and healthcare waste management in Nigeria was developed to ensure infectious diseases being transmitted through unsterile injections, and improper healthcare waste are eradicated or minimized to the lowest minimum.
Aim: This study is aimed at reviewing the level of implementation and challenges of the Nigerian National Policy on injection safety and healthcare waste management.
Methodology: This review focused on the policy document, its implementation, successes and challenges.
Results: The areas of focus of the policy are communication and behavioral change, healthcare waste management, logistics, management (human resource development) as well as monitoring and evaluation. Implementation of this policy cut across the tiers of government, public institutions in addition to private stakeholders. The policy has been able to achieve training of healthcare workers on safe injection and behavioural change, better waste management practice, advocacy programs, development of guidelines for injection and healthcare waste management practices, construction and installation of waste facilities and mobilization of resources.
Conclusion: In spite of the achievements of the policy, inadequate training, ineffective legislature and absence of data were challenges facing this policy implementation despite the resources allocated to its implementation. Moreover, stated guidelines were not strictly followed and adhered to in all healthcare facilities. For the efficient and productive implementation of the policy, there should be continuous training of health workers, enforcement of guidelines and procedures, proper data collection and provision of necessary consumables
A Review of the Nigerian National Health Policy on Injection Safety and Healthcare Waste Management
No full textBackground: Exposure to healthcare wastes increases the risk of transmission of blood-borne infections. Nigeria previously lacked an enabling environment for healthcare waste management, as it did not have a national healthcare waste management policy. Thus, the National policy on injection safety and healthcare waste management in Nigeria was developed to ensure infectious diseases being transmitted through unsterile injections, and improper healthcare waste are eradicated or minimized to the lowest minimum.
Aim: This study is aimed at reviewing the level of implementation and challenges of the Nigerian National Policy on injection safety and healthcare waste management.
Methodology: This review focused on the policy document, its implementation, successes and challenges.
Results: The areas of focus of the policy are communication and behavioral change, healthcare waste management, logistics, management (human resource development) as well as monitoring and evaluation. Implementation of this policy cut across the tiers of government, public institutions in addition to private stakeholders. The policy has been able to achieve training of healthcare workers on safe injection and behavioural change, better waste management practice, advocacy programs, development of guidelines for injection and healthcare waste management practices, construction and installation of waste facilities and mobilization of resources.
Conclusion: In spite of the achievements of the policy, inadequate training, ineffective legislature and absence of data were challenges facing this policy implementation despite the resources allocated to its implementation. Moreover, stated guidelines were not strictly followed and adhered to in all healthcare facilities. For the efficient and productive implementation of the policy, there should be continuous training of health workers, enforcement of guidelines and procedures, proper data collection and provision of necessary consumables
Effect of the noble Qur’an in the poems of Yusuf Alqardawi: an analytical study
No full textShaykh Yusuf Al-Qardawi is considered as a prominent and great scholar of Islamic law and
literary studies in the world, he is extensively endowed with knowledge of the Holy Qur’an and
the traditions of the prophet, together with the studies of Arabic texts and literature, especially the
poetry of the classical and modern ears, all which would be confirmed by his vast delivery in
Islamic Studies, as he had numerous writings as an author and creative writer ability. It was
noticed that the Holy Qur’an had a great impact on those Al-Qardawi’s works, because he has
tasted the beauty of its eloquence and rhetoric right from his early ages and was affected by his
strength and potency since his youth. This paper therefore, aimed at looking into the effect of the
Qur’an in Al-Qardawi’s poetry. The objectives were to assess some of his poetic works that are
mainly contained adaptation of the Holy Qur’an; examine Al-Qardawi’s styles of extracting from
the Noble Qur’an; and analyse the rhetorical features of the poetry studied. Both historical and
descriptive were adopted in this study. Historical method was used in presentation of AlQardawi’s biography while the descriptive method was employed in analysing the adaptation and
the rhetorical features of the selected poetry. The findings of the paper include the facts that many
of Al-Qardawi’s works were influenced by the Qur’an via adaptation and this shows that he is
very conversant with recitation of Qur’an. Al-Qardawi was noticed to have fulfilled the
requirements of expression through appropriate use of elegant rhetorical features to maintain
clarity, uniqueness and beautification. The paper therefore, recommended that researchers should
lay more hands on his works for further studies in his other literary works
Social Networking Technologies in Libraries and the role of Librarians as agent for Repositioning Nigerian Education
No full textInternational audienceThe introduction of social network as a medium of communication on the Internet, followed by its widely acceptance by users, its viability, integration and penetration into different spheres of human endeavor gives it high popularity among other means of information communication and dissemination. Enterprises that embedded social media in their productions, processes and marketing (blogs, forums, wikis, and communities) are realizing the potential of these circles in improving their productivity and efficiency. Social networking is a social structure that lets the user interact and work collaboratively with other users, including the ability to browse, search, invite friends to connect and interact with web world. Social networking technologies in the web 2.0 have enhanced teaching and learning process within and outside the four walls of the classroom. Thereby making librarians as an agent for repositioning the educational system of the country. In this paper, the authors has intended to describe the possible implications of social networking technologies in the field of library and information services in the web 2.0 milieu. In addition, an attempt has been made to illustrate different social software tools and their effective utilization in the social networking environment. Finally, the author has cited some stunning examples of library being run in the world using the web 2.0 technologies, and recommending possible ways to enhance service delivery in the library using social networking technologies
Mythologizing the transition : a comparative study of Bahram Beyzaee and Wolfe Soyinka
No full textBahram Beyzaee, the Iranian playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, and Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian poet, playwright, and novelist have produced artistic works that transcend the limitations of time and locality to become powerful comments on human life and socio-political and cultural institutions. This research study examines the major themes and dramatic techniques of these two writers to demonstrate how, in two very different cultural settings, traditional modes and themes appear in modem art forms to renegotiate cultural identity. I argue that both writers place themselves in a post postcolonial position which rather than being concerned about 'writing back against the centre' reflects on the cultural shortcomings that leaves their people at the mercy of vicious internal and external forces. I also demonstrate how they demythologize the traditional superstitious beliefs that haunt the present, foreground the inauthenticity of the modern hybrid obsessions that distort everyday life in their countries and mythologize and glorify the positive aspects of history and contemporary life to redefine cultural identity in terms of the best their cultures can offer. The first two chapters give an account of the history of Iranian and Nigerian performance forms in the context of socio-political, cultural, literary and artistic movements and traditions. The third chapter proceeds to present a short discussion of the theatrical vision and themes of Beyzaee and Soyinka and embarks on a general comparison of the two writers. Chapter four is focused on Beyzaee and Soyinka's depiction of the intellectuals as sacrificial heroes whose death may initiate social purgation and cultural regeneration and liberation. Chapter five is less mythical and more sociopolitical. It is a reflection on the writers' portrayal of women in their works and their success or failure in transcending literary and cultural stereotypes in a world where the means of production and socio-economic facts and the cultural developments associated with them demand a rapid movement away from patriarchal values. Chapter six is devoted to the study of another major issue in the process of cultural transition, namely, redefining the position of ethnic minorities in the myth of nationhood. This last chapter is followed by a brief conclusion, discussing the results and the future possibilities of drama in the context of rapid transition
JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SCIENCE EDUCATION (JORISE)
No full textJOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SCIENCE EDUCATION (JORISE)
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE EDUCATION FACULTY OF EDUCATION, EKITI STATE UNIVERSITY,
ADO-EKITI, NIGERIA
ISSN: 2545 – 5788
VOL. 2 NO. 1 JULY 201
