Edo Culture- Orientation

Posted by Admin , Labels: Monday, 9 May 2011 4:10 pm

Identification. "Edo" is the name that the people of the Benin Kingdom give to themselves, their language, and their capital city and kingdom. Renowned for their art of brass and ivory and for their complex political organization, the Edo Kingdom of Benin is one of the best known of the precolonial kingdoms on the Guinea Coast of West Africa. From at least the fifteenth century, the Benin Empire held varying degrees of authority over neighboring peoples, including the western Igbo, northeastern Yoruba, and various related Edo-speaking groups. In 1897 British-colonial forces conquered the kingdom and made it part of the Niger Protectorate. Today it

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South Africa

Posted by Admin , Labels: 4:01 pm

Identification. South Africa is the only nation-state named after its geographic location; there was a general agreement not to change the name after the establishment of a constitutional nonracial democracy in 1994. The country came into being through the 1910 Act of Union that united two British colonies and two independent republics into the Union of South Africa. After the establishment of the first colonial outpost of the Dutch East India

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Recasting Culture Policies

Posted by Admin , Labels: 3:44 pm


The Architectural and Townscape Heritage as a Factor Influencing Trends in Development


Jean Barthélemy

In addressing the complex role that culture can play in economic development, we must bring together a number of approaches from the greatest possible variety of viewpoints. Only the convergence of the studies resulting from these many lines of reasoning can lead to the

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Women and Cultural Policies

Posted by Admin , Labels: 3:39 pm



Danielle Cliche, Ritva Mitchell, Andreas Joh. Wiesand 
European Research Institute for Comparative Cultural Policy and the Arts


1. Background


1.1 Purpose of the paper
In preparation for the UNESCO Intergovernmental Conference on Cultural and Media Policies for Development, to take place in Stockholm Sweden, 30 March to 2 April 1998, the Culture and Development Unit of UNESCO commissioned several background papers to elaborate global issues for each of the key themes to be discussed. Following the submission of these background papers, the issue of gender relations in the arts, media and cultural development required further elaboration, in view of the fact that it was taken up as a subject of key importance in

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Women's Policy Institute

Posted by Admin , Labels: 3:31 pm

Women's Policy Institute

Much more effective than a single lobby group, the Women’s Policy Institute amplifies the voices of many women who are leading grassroots social justice work, training them on how legislation is made and connecting them to those in power.
Through our model of change, the leaders we support

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Ora: Home Away from Home

Posted by Admin , Labels: Friday, 29 April 2011 4:56 pm

In any Ora town or village, a stranger needs not yearn for home. As thousands of non-indigenes, who have had to live in the communities of this major tribal group in Edo State, have found out over the years, Ora towns are ever a home away from home. The people of Ora take pride in this fact. The average Ora man's sense of hospitality is not only exemplary but also well known. It is often said that among the major communities in Edo State, of which Ora is one, none could boast of harboring more strangers than Ora. Ora communities consist of six major

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In Defence of Edo Womanhood

Posted by Admin , Labels: 2:03 am

EDO TRADITION
The expanded form of the word Ogiso is Ogie-iso, which when tranlated in Edo means, king of the sky. The word Ogie means king, Iso means Sky or Heaven. Thus the Edo people believe that thieir kings come from the sky or more appropiately, from Heaven or from God. It is belief which explains why the Oba or king is the embodiment of the culture of the Edo people. The story of the people of the people cannot be written without reference to their king or Oba. Indeed, everything revolves

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