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Item World Views on Erectile Dysfunction: Perspectives in Knowledge Systems and Development(Ife Centre for Psychological Studies/Services (ICPS), 2019) Akanle, O.; Oyindamola, Y.; Ademuson, A. O.; Adegoke, O. O.In a bid to achieve sustainable development, there is a need for a connection and integration of knowledge system and western knowledge (medicine). More specifically is in the area of health care for sustainable development. In a bid to achieve sustainable development in the health care system, there is a need for deeper understanding of diseases in terms of its worldview by key actors especially in indigenous settings based on peoples’ contextual knowledge. It is against this background that erectile dysfunction, known as Idakole in Yoruba indigenous knowledge systems was examined. This article investigates the knowledge gap relative to worldviews of erectile dysfunction in Ibadan metropolis, Oyo State, Nigeria. The interpretation of Idakole in western medicine is erectile dysfunction. The research that informed this article was conducted in 2018 and it adopted quantitative methodology. Very useful findings were made with implications for policy and scholarship.Item Climate Variations and Gender-Related Health issues in Selected Communities in Rivers state. Nigeria. Ibadan(Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria/Pluto Journals, 2019) Jawando, J. O.; Ademuson, A. O.; Adeoye, I. S.The line connecting climate variations and gender-related health issues was virtually non-existing or at most insignificant about three decades ago. There was no link of gender in the deluge of epidemic and disasters related to climate variations. However, with recent development in climate change, more research and available data globally, it is clear that we cannot separate climate change from gender-related health issues. Studies have shown women are 14 more times likely to die than men during disaster considering, the fact that 68 per cent of all disasters are related to climate change. Women constitute the majority of agricultural workers globally and in Nigeria, where agriculture is the mainstream, making them more vulnerable to diseases and harsh weather conditions exacerbated by heat waves, extreme rainfall and rising humidity. The study was purposively conducted in ten communities in Rivers State, where people experienced climate divergence, neglect, poverty and environmental degradation. Focus group discussion was used in gathering relevant information. Participants were grouped according to gender and included community leaders, religious leaders, representatives of the associations, youth and women leader who lives in the selected communities. Timeline tools such as timeline analysis and ranking were also used during discussions to provide information on transformations that had occurred and brought about environmental issues in the selected communities. The study found that environmental degradation has impacted negatively in the communities. Also, women emphasized more on the consequences of these problems on farming, fishing, erosion and environmental pollution. In terms of health issues, women identified malaria, hypertension, ulcer, diarrhea, asthma and diabetes as new ailments associated with changing climate with malaria as widespread. Poverty alleviation schemes should be increasingly established and effectively implemented to help lift more women out of poverty.Item Social Capital and Cooperative Society Lending In Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria(Nigerian Anthropological and Sociological Association (NASA), 2019) Awofeso, O. A.; Ademuson, A. O.Cooperatives societies are seen as dependable and quick financial bailout institutions which can be used by business owners to secure quick and minimum interest on loans. This ethnographic study provides an understanding of the lending activities and criteria of obtaining a loan from co-operative societies in Ibadan, Nigeria as well as the social factors influencing how people access these loans. This empirical study gathered data using unobtrusive observation by attending weekly meetings of the cooperative (comprising of 102 members), asking questions during discussion times in the meeting as well as interacting with members of the co-operative society for 18 months. Additionally, 10 key informant interviews were done. Findings show that a strong social capital is needed and vital in obtaining loans in a co-operative society. The study concluded that cooperative societies are effective in lending business loans and supporting entrepreneurship but intending members must plan to join alongside others who can stand as guarantors for them in order to access loans easily and quickly. It is recommended that cooperative societies should find a modality of assisting those with no social resource to stand for them as guarantor in order to be able to help more people to start or grow their business enterprise. Those with no social resources should mingle well with other members in order to build one.Item Gender and Marketing of Agricultural Produce in Nigeria(Ife Centre for Psychological Studies/Services (ICPS), 2019) Akanle, O.; Ademuson, A. O.; Adegoke, O. O.; Ukewunmi, E. O.Often times when gender is considered in relation to marketing, the attention is on the marketing of commodities especially manufactured ones. This is because attention on marketing in Africa is increasingly shifting from agricultural markets to shopping malls and virtual markets. Agricultural produce, particularly its marketing, however remains very important in sustaining many African communities and it holds important keys to understanding lingering gender trajectories of Africa. This article therefore examines the social intricacies involved in market decision making relative to agricultural produce by gender in one of the most prominent and enduring agricultural market in West Africa. Data were gathered through In-depth Interviews (IDIs) of 38 actors in the market and the theoretical framework adopted was a triangulation of Gender and Development and Feminist theories. Data analysis was done using content analysis and presented using ethnographic narratives, interpretations and summaries.Item Incubation Hubs and Development in Southwestern Nigeria(Department of Sociology, University of Ilorin, 2019) Akanle, O.; Ademuson, A. O.; Omotayo, A.Incubation hubs have become a global concept. There has been a continuous increase in their numbers around the world, especially in Europe and America as they have been found to be very good tools for job creation and socio-economic development. In recent times, African countries have embraced incubation hubs, with a lot of startups and small businesses undergoing incubation, especially in Nigeria. Although there has been an increase in the studies of incubation hubs globally, little has been done in understanding the prospect of incubation hub especially the private ones in Nigeria. Adopting an explorative, explanatory and descriptive research design, this study employed triangulation using qualitative and quantitative methods and Social Network Theory as the theoretical framework. The research was conducted in Lagos Metropolis and Ibadan, Oyo state. This study covers the prospect of incubation hubs as drivers of development; it considers the impact of incubation hubs on the community as well as the influence of the community on them and their ability to drive development in the nation-state. &ings from this study revealed that the incubation space has the potential to help Nigeria achieve sustainable development through job creation and support for the local community where they are located while contributing to the overall development of the nation. To enhance the growth of the sector, this paper recommends that adequate support should be provided to this space by the private and public sector through collaborations that will increase the synergy in the space and drive productivity.Item This is who we are and why: Ethnography of weddings in Ibadan, Nigeria(The Union for African Population Studies (UAPS), 2019) Akanle, O.; Ademuson, A. O.; Adegoke, O. O.; Oguntoyinbo, K. O.Background: Wedding ceremonies celebrate marital unions of two individuals/families in accordance with socially sanctioned arrangements. Among the Yoruba of south-western Nigeria, weddings of various forms exist. Elaborate and relatively grand weddings are common among the Yoruba people but studies are insufficient on these weddings. More attention is thus needed to understand the trajectories and ramifications of these weddings especially within the socio-economic conditions and rapidly changing social environments that have implications for population and development. This article is therefore an attempt to describe contemporary marriage ceremonies among the Yoruba in Ibadan, Southwestern Nigeria and the meanings associated with the ceremonies. The article is a detailed ethnographic narrative of Yoruba marriage processes. Data Sources and Method: Primary and secondary data were gathered. For the primary data, qualitative research method was used. Data collection methods were participant observations (10 different wedding venues) and 15 in-depth interviews. Interpretive research approach through interviews, observations and pictures were used because of their capacities to extract reliable contextual meanings and implicative elements of social realities. Secondary data were gathered from journal articles, books, newspaper clippings and reliable internet sources. Data analysis was done through content analysis of texts and pictures. Results: Findings reveal very original and dynamically creative ways of celebrating weddings and significance of such weddings among the Yoruba people with implications for better understanding of Africa’s socio-economic and cultural systems, population and development. Conclusion: Weddings are significant social realities in context. While they preceed family formation and traditionally crucial, they are both physical and cultural just as they are systematically symbolic and demonstrative of familial and sociocultural statuses and class in Africa. Weddings in the context are indication and legitimation of identity and existencies and these have strategic implications for social change, cultural systems and population.Item Globalization: An Africanist Perspective(Faculty of Social Sciences, Lagos State University (LASU), 2018) Akanle, O.; Adejare, G. S.; Ademuson, A. O.; Adegoke, O. O.Globalisation is certainly one of the most definitive occurrences of human history. Its impacts on humans and their existences are so widespread that it has remained about one of the most researched and discussed issues by scholars, academics and policy makers. This is not only because of its consequences but also because of its continued developments and dynamics which have made very complicated and difficult to comprehend and appropriate. While many studies exist on the issue, most of the existing ones are from Euro-American perspectives. Not many works are available on the Africanist perspectives of globalisation even though Africans are key actors in the globalisation systems. When African experiences are narrated within the prisms of globalisation, the narrations largely reflect lopsided outcomes of established political economic order of knowledge creation and consumption thereby leaving huge gaps in sustainable understanding of epistemologies and ontologies of globalisation. It is against this background that this article adopts Africanist frameworks to examine globalisation. Issues of interest in this article include; operationalisation of globalisation, local infusions (glocalisation), theories of globalisation, practical manifestations of globalisation in Africa and possible outcomes with implications for the continent.Item Social Construction of hazards among Commercial riders in Metropolitan Lagos, Nigeria.(Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria/Pluto Journals, 2018) Jawando, J. O.; Ademuson, A. O.The severe economic hardship in the country coupled with high rate of unemployment has necessitated continuous increase in the number of people riding commercial motor-cycles for their livelihood. However, most riders do not have better option due to the economic situation in the country. The need for survival made some people the educated, semi-educated as well as non- educated to venture into the business without recourse to the hazards involved. Previous studies have identified various causes of hazards ranging from environmental, psychological and physiological with minimal consideration for the social construction of the reality by the riders. This paper examines the social construction of hazards, the meaning attached to occupational hazards, the culture of commercial riders, the interpretation given to commercial motorcycles and the rules of engagement of the riders. Behavioral and human models provided the theoretical leanings. Five local governments were purposively selected: Mushin, Oshodi-Isolo, Ajeromi-Ifelodun, Lagos Island and Ikorodu. These locations were selected based on the high rate of accidents and exposure to hazards by commuters and riders. A total of 70 in-depth interviews were conducted among the riders and union executives in the five locations. The study found that majority of the respondents linked hazards to supernatural forces, poor knowledge of traffic codes and laws, superstition associated with passengers and the environment, pressure on the part of passengers to get to destination on time among others. It also found that the culture of impunity, kidnapping, ritual killing and some other vices that have been linked to some of their members. Some of the outcome of the interpretation given to commercial motorcyclists within the metropolitan had occurred as a result of high rate of accidents involving loss of lives. Government should come up with effective policies that will streamline the activities of commercial motorcycles in remote areas of the state.Item Gender Paradoxes and Agricultural monopoly in Nigeria: Implications for Policy and food (in) Security in Africa(Ife Centre for Psychological Studies/Services (ICPS), 2017) Akanle, O.; Adesina, J. O.; Ademuson, A. O.There is no doubt that Africa today is food challenged (insecure) and confront huge poverty despite the fact that much of African lands are arable and suitable for agriculture. This is essentially paradoxical. While policies and scholarly attempts have focused the roles of mechanization, processing, subsidies, redistribution, export and, recently, climate change, the role of gender relative to sustainability, social justice, exclusion/inclusion and agricultural optimization for food security remains largely policy and scholarly appendages. This is however not surprising given the patriarchal econo-social and power relations in most African societies only also playing out in land and agricultural space. It is impossible to have agriculture without the important roles of women, as women are responsible for about 80 percent of agricultural productions through their small farm holdings. Yet, local and global monopolies do not factor in the role of women sufficiently and often marginalize women thereby creating a gulf of sidelined critical gender mass. This gender sidelining is not only in terms of access to land, but also in terms of access to inputs, food and agricultural commodity markets that are mostly male dominated. This is more so in exchange and transactional terms as well as at policy domains. This paper thus maintains that the continued lack of real, substantial and practical appreciation of the role of women in agriculture through policies, interventions and practices contributes highly to the high level of food insecurity and policy failures in Africa and this only demonstrate the unsustainability of current lopsided agricultural monopolies in Africa. This paper brings useful Nigerian case studies that will contribute immensely to the ongoing debate on the problematic in manners that will enrich scholarship, policy and practice on the continent.Item Gender role and Vocational experiences of married women beer Parlour operators in Ibadan, Nigeria(Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria/Pluto Journals, 2017) Ademuson, A. O.; Ojedokun, U. A.Despite the increasing recognition of gender role as a major factor contributing to gender inequality, it still largely guides people’s vocational preference in Nigeria. On this basis, this article examined the influence of gender role on the vocational experiences of married women beer parlour operators in Ibadan, Nigeria. Data were generated through in-depth interview and focus group discussion methods. Labelling and self-determination theories were utilised as theoretical framework. Purposive and quota sampling techniques were adopted for the selection of 21 married women beer parlour operators and 28 customers. Findings indicated that the needs for self-fulfilment and financial independence were the major motivating factors responsible for the women’s choice of vocation. Nearly all the women attributed their success in beer parlour business to their husbands’ support. The major vocational-related challenge confronting married women beer parlour operators is negative perception by some members of the public.