African festivals are often reconstructed in order not to lose them completely. Nta
hunting festival has undergone such reconstruction. Although existing studies have
mainly focused on the religious and cultural values ...
Drums are diverse and are used in a variety of contexts in Yorùbá culture. Bẹ̀ mbé̩ , an outer-faced
cylindrical membrane drum nuanced by its symbolic spiritual identity, enlivens Yoruba religious
and semi-religious ...
The enthrallment with Jùjú music, a Yoruba musical genre, was buoyed by Nigeria’s oil boom
phenomenon in the 1970s. Existing studies on Nigerian popular music genres, especially the
Jùjú, have focused more on its ...