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Portraits for an eagle: a festschrift in honour of Femi Osofisan
No full textTo mark the 60th birthday of Femi Osofisan, this unique collection of essays by friends and critics pays tribute to his many achievements as a director, teacher, essayist, novelist, poet, critic and one of the foremost playwrights from Africa. The essays provide an important insight into the man,his work and his valuable contributions to theatre and literature in Africa.
Femi Osofisan has taught, directed and had his plays performed in several countries including Australia, Canada, Germany, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Jamaica, Lesotho, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom and the USA. Author of more than fifty plays, two books for junior readers, four works of fiction, four collections of poetry anf four volumes of essays, Osofisan also has popular columns in a number of Nigerian newspapers. Currently the President of the Nigerian Centre of International PEN and a Patron of the Pan-African Writers' Association, he has been the President of the Association of Nigerian Authors. Osofisan is currently a Professor of Drama at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Portraits For An Eagle is a definitive tribute to a man of the theatre. Contributors include fellow writers, distinguished academics and critics like Biodun Jeyifo, James Gibbs, Olu Obafemi, Barbara Goff and Martin Banham
Corrigendum for: Patorani local knowledge system in fisheries resources conservation education in Galesong District South Sulawesi
No full textWe sincerely express our apology for the changes in the author list in the article entitled Patorani local knowledge system in fisheries resources conservation education in Galesong District South Sulawesi. This article was published on DOI: 10.17977/um017v28i12023p52-63, with the authors list consisting of Hasriyanti, Rusdi, Alonge Titus Adeyemi, Michel E. D. Chaves, and Erman Syarif. However, Michel E. D. Chaves issue a complaint regarding his involvement during the research and paper completion. He did not agree to the inclusion of his name in the author list. We have contacted the corresponding author for confirmation. Besides, the co-author has also confirmed the mistake in the writing of one of the author’s names, Alonge Titus Adeyemi, which should be Titus Adeyemi Alonge. The corresponding author has submitted a letter of author contribution signed by Hasriyanti, Rusdi, Titus Adeyemi Alonge, and Erman Syarif. The original article has been revised, and reasonable effort should be made to remove all references to this article
Portraits for an eagle: a festschrift in honour of Femi Osofisan
No full textTo mark the 60th birthday of Femi Osofisan, this unique collection of essays by friends and critics pays tribute to his many achievements as a director, teacher, essayist, novelist, poet, critic and one of the foremost playwrights from Africa. The essays provide an important insight into the man,his work and his valuable contributions to theatre and literature in Africa.
Femi Osofisan has taught, directed and had his plays performed in several countries including Australia, Canada, Germany, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Jamaica, Lesotho, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom and the USA. Author of more than fifty plays, two books for junior readers, four works of fiction, four collections of poetry anf four volumes of essays, Osofisan also has popular columns in a number of Nigerian newspapers. Currently the President of the Nigerian Centre of International PEN and a Patron of the Pan-African Writers' Association, he has been the President of the Association of Nigerian Authors. Osofisan is currently a Professor of Drama at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Portraits For An Eagle is a definitive tribute to a man of the theatre. Contributors include fellow writers, distinguished academics and critics like Biodun Jeyifo, James Gibbs, Olu Obafemi, Barbara Goff and Martin Banham
Adebiyi etal: absorption of shortwave radiation by North African dust
No full textThe codes and datasets contained here are for the paper with the information below
Titled: "North African dust absorbs substantially less solar radiation than estimated by climate models and remote-sensing retrievals"
Author: Adeyemi A. Adebiyi, Yue Huang, Bjørn H. Samset and Jasper F. Kok
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Corresponding Authors:
Adeyemi Adebiyi
Email: [email protected];
Department of Life and Environmental Sciences,
University of California-Merced,
5200 North Lake Road Merced, CA 95343
Changing Minds: Towards Water-Based Architecture and Public Space for the Future Urban Archipelago
No full textThis blog contribution supports the Urban Archipelago expo at Nieuwe Instituut (NI) in Rotterdam, designed to consist of four elements: a map, a view, a model, and a series of films that depicted a future of living with water, as well as a booklet that documented student work. The expo has been part of the Water Cities Rotterdam, which opened with the work of Kunlé Adeyemi (NLÉ) on 13 May 2023.History, Form & AestheticsUrban Desig
The Legal, Economic, Social, Criminal and Political Challenges of Video Piracy: The Nigerian Experience
No full textIn the circumstance of existing pragmatic problem of an endangering high prevalence of video piracy and dearth of empirical enquiries, this study attempted to fill the knowledge gap in the global video piracy discourse from the legal, ethical, moral, economic, criminal and political perspectives in Nigeria. The study investigated the challenges of video piracy in Nigeria from multiple perspectives. Adopting the qualitative design and the case study approach, a triangulation of the in-depth interview, focus group discussion and document analysis methods were used for data collection. While the judgment sampling method was adopted for information gathering from respondents, the interpretive and critical analytical methods were used for the data analysis. The study’s theoretical framework was the diffusion of innovation theory. A set of eight findings of this study which uniquely contribute to the body of knowledge on video piracy in Nigeria and globally include: the dangerous ethnic dimension of the video piracy trend in Lagos; the low level of awareness on video piracy amongst the Nigerian public; the poor level of monitoring of post production and reproduction processes by producers and right owners; the internal sabotage within production plants and among video marketers; poor financial and operational capacity of stakeholders, non usage of highly sophisticated technological devices to protect video works; the experience of devastating psychological trauma by video producers and marketers; unwilling resort of video producers to low quality production to reduce cost and risk; and finally, the four fundamental factors refuting the claim of video piracy’s contribution to the emergence and popularity of the Nigerian video industry. The significance of these findings includes: strategic insight and understanding of the video piracy dynamics capable of facilitating strategic planning; control; eradication of video piracy; strategic conflict prevention; knowledge update on video piracy and strategic economic and cultural development
AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE TREND AND PATTERN OF VIDEO-FILM PIRACY IN NIGERIA
No full textPiracy is allegedly threatening the survival of the film and video industries worldwide, particularly in countries with developed film industries. Investors in the film industries have alleged that, video piracy has led to huge losses, thereby threatening their survival. Although, some studies have been conducted on the global trend of film and video piracy particularly on the situations in the United States of America, Britain, France and India among others, only few studies have been conducted on the video piracy phenomenon in Nigeria despite the fact that, the country has the second largest video industry in the world. Besides the studies on the Nigerian scenario being few, only one of such studies has been conducted from insider’s perspective. Consequently, the studies are not exhaustive, hence the need for an exhaustive empirical study on the trend and pattern of video piracy in Nigeria. This study’s main objective is to investigate and analyze the trend, pattern and dynamics of video piracy as it affects the Nigerian video industry. The qualitative design was adopted for the study, while the combined methods of in-depth interview, focus group discussion and documents analysis were used for data collection. A triangulation of the interpretive and critical analytical techniques were also adopted for the data analysis within the diffusion of innovation theoretical framework for this study which made the following findings that; the rate of video piracy in Nigeria is alarming and dangerous; that video pirates conduct their activities with sophisticated technology and high level criminality; that, video piracy trend has taken an endangering ethnic dimension capable of causing ethnic conflict between two major ethnic groups, (Yoruba and Igbo) in Nigeria. The prevalence of television and internet piracy as well as the multiple-in-one DVD piracy format also forms part of the major findings of this study. This study updates and enriches general knowledge on videography and video piracy phenomenon in particular
African Indigenous Conservative Approach to Environmental Sustainability: Maintaining a Balance within the Blue Economy
No full textThis paper ethically investigates into how to ensure a balance between wealth creation out of the ocean resources and at the same time maintaining a sustained environment through the introduction of the African indigenous conservative method. The problem of global warming as a result of climate change has, in recent times, shifted the global economic focus from wealth creation through unsustainable means to cleaner, healthier approaches that aim to protect the ecosystem, recognizing human survival’s dependence on it. One of the proposed clean means is the blue economy otherwise called the green economy, blue growth, ocean economy, and ocean sustainability, which is regarded as the sustainable use of ocean resources for wealth creation. However, amidst the optimism surrounding the blue economy, ethical considerations still becomes salient, as it remains imperative to ensure that the pursuit of wealth creation does not come at the expense of further environmental degradation, as that has often been the reality of wealth creation. Thus, through the use of a conceptual and critical analysis methodology, this paper at the end, we conclude that while the clean economy is considered a clean way of creating wealth, it could as well lead to further degradation if care is not taken due to the selfish nature of man and his anthropocentric consciousness, and it would be detrimental if further degradation is birthed through the blue economy. Hence, an ethical consideration is necessary and revered in order to further maintain a sustained environmental condition, of which the African conservative method of preserving the environment best addresses this concern
African Indigenous Conservative Approach to Environmental Sustainability: Maintaining a Balance within the Blue Economy
No full textThis paper ethically investigates into how to ensure a balance between wealth creation out of the ocean resources and at the same time maintaining a sustained environment through the introduction of the African indigenous conservative method. The problem of global warming as a result of climate change has, in recent times, shifted the global economic focus from wealth creation through unsustainable means to cleaner, healthier approaches that aim to protect the ecosystem, recognizing human survival’s dependence on it. One of the proposed clean means is the blue economy otherwise called the green economy, blue growth, ocean economy, and ocean sustainability, which is regarded as the sustainable use of ocean resources for wealth creation. However, amidst the optimism surrounding the blue economy, ethical considerations still becomes salient, as it remains imperative to ensure that the pursuit of wealth creation does not come at the expense of further environmental degradation, as that has often been the reality of wealth creation. Thus, through the use of a conceptual and critical analysis methodology, this paper at the end, we conclude that while the clean economy is considered a clean way of creating wealth, it could as well lead to further degradation if care is not taken due to the selfish nature of man and his anthropocentric consciousness, and it would be detrimental if further degradation is birthed through the blue economy. Hence, an ethical consideration is necessary and revered in order to further maintain a sustained environmental condition, of which the African conservative method of preserving the environment best addresses this concern
On the estimation of the black-capped vireo (Vireo atricapillus) territory density using geographic information systems technology, 1996
No full textThis study is based on a 1994 survey of the nesting and territory preferences of the black-capped vireo, a small migratory songbird, within Fort Hood, Texas. By Federal Government Order 51 FR 44808-44812 of 1987 (Tazik et al., 1992), these birds were declared an endangered species based on a series of studies by J. D. Cornelius in 1985 and 1986 (Tazik et al., 1993). In this study, it has been shown that the vireo nesting and territory preferences are not uniform across Fort Hood installation grounds, rather the preference is towards the north to northwest. The vegetation in this region consists of oak woodlands, with grassy undergrowth; the elevation is at most 260 meters above sea level; and the geology yields loose and chalky limestone. In addition, the territory intensity, ?ij(s), for each point s(x,y) in the ijth grid cell on the military installation, has been estimated. For each such grid cell, the probability of a successful territory is given by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) raster color maps of territory distribution of the vireo have been produced. These maps were overlaid on the slope, aspect, soils, elevation, vegetation, and military activities coverages. With the density estimate of nesting success and the GIS maps, territory position preferences were identified, thus, helping in the Land Management Plan for the preservation of the black-capped vireo on the Fort Hood Military Installation
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