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The blacksmithing technology is as old as human civilization itself. Indeed the development of different human civilizations has been linked to the discovery and use of metal to manufacture tools and implements that supported an agrarian lifestyle. In Awka, Anambra State Nigeria, this occupation has come under intense threats associated with modernity. The paper …
Methods: The present study was conducted on a total of 140 male blacksmiths and 120 male controls in Kano Metropolis, Nigeria. All information related to working conditions such as duration of ...
This study examined and discussed Elele Alimini blacksmithing as an indigenous Ikwerre occupation in Nigeria. Blacksmithing, a surviving traditional source of livelihood in Elele Alimini that is much sought after in the phase of modernism is of great value to the people of Alimini and environs. Unfortunately, Western Education and consequent ...
blacksmithing from the other and even from where in Igboland the technology started from. Njoku, in his work ' Awka and Early Iron Technology in Igboland: Myths, Probabilities and Reality ...
blacksmithing practices to income and poverty alleviation in kwara State, Nigeria. Eighty blacksmith artisans were randomly selected in the sixteen LGAs of Kwara State for the study.
Eastern Nigeria witnessed appreciable transformation of its social structure. It was within the eastern region, unlike in the other parts of Nigeria that capitalism had a free hand, to do whatever it wanted. The colonial government catalyzed this process immensely (Olutayo 1999). Colonialism boosted the so-called legitimate trade in its own ...
The Hausa people of Nigeria have rich cultural heritage and traditions. Here's everything you need to know about their history. ... they had a common language, laws, and customs. The Hausas specialized in blacksmithing, fishing, hunting, agriculture, and salt-mining. By around the 1500s, the northern city of Kano had become the most powerful ...
Yoruba, one of the three largest ethnic groups of Nigeria, concentrated in the southwestern part of that country. Much smaller, scattered groups live in Benin and northern Togo. The Yoruba numbered more than 20 million at the turn of the 21st century. ... They worked at such trades as blacksmithing, weaving, leatherworking, glassmaking, and ...
Taken together, the exhibit highlights the diversity, ingenuity and sheer beauty of African blacksmithing, says Christine Mullen Kreamer, deputy director and chief curator of the National Museum ...
blacksmithing as a traditional art and the origin and practice of blacksmithing in Alimini Community. It also shows the gap in the role of blacksmithing in Alimini and Nigeria in general, as well as the causes of the decline of blacksmithing in Elele Alimini and its environs. The study therefore, suggests ways of revitalizing the art
Blacksmithing in Benin City, Nigeria is of significant antiquity. The popularity and importance of the practice in the city is reinforced in the blacksmiths guild's attachment to the...
The ancient blacksmithing indigenous technology of the Awka people in south eastern Nigeria, in pre-colonial times, was self developed and substantially met the metal works' needs of the Igbo speaking area around them, ensuring continuous manufacture and supply of products, such as simple farm implements including hoes and cutlasses (Obadan ...
Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria Abstract: Agriculture and technological development including blacksmithing promotes agricultural tools production and offers an unexploited succor capable of salvaging the people from abject poverty. Blacksmithing and its products are frequently valuable in diverse ways and contribute to technological and ...
The ancient blacksmithing indigenous technology of the Awka people in south eastern Nigeria, in pre-colonial times, was self developed and substantially met the
There are fanciful-looking sculptures in iron depicting lightning streaking across the sky, as in a vessel by the Mumuye peoples of Nigeria. But it too, has an agricultural function: …
2019. This work examines the dynamics and patterns of the political economy and indigenous industries of Ondo community between 1915 and 1950. It explains the various kinds of trade and occupations of the Ondo people of Southwestern Nigeria which had brought peace, progress, and altruistic tendency in the community and which had made the community to be a force to be …
The blacksmithing technology is as old as human civilization itself. Indeed the development of different human civilizations has been linked to the discovery and use of metal to manufacture tools and implements that supported an agrarian lifestyle. ... In Awka, Anambra State Nigeria, this occupation has come under intense threats associated ...
Blacksmithing technology in the context of African indigenous industry and industrialization Blacksmithing technology refers to the knowledge of iron working evinced in the transformation of iron ore to finished products such as farm …
British colonialism on blacksmithing in Northern Nigeria, arguing that the craft of smithing underwent major transformations in the twentieth century that accelerated the industry's decline.
Thus, some of these economic activities include agriculture, and indigenous industries such as blacksmithing, weaving, and blacksmithing, pottery, and woodwork among others. Land and People of Ondo Community in Southwestern Nigeria Ondo is one of the South Eastern towns of the Yorubaland with its headquarters called Ode (core) Ondo.
Blacksmithing known as Ise agbede in Yoruba language is one of the oldest craft; it is the art of forging and creating items like cutlass, hoes, rake armour, traps, shovels, diggers and...
Onwuka Njoku, Economic History of Nigeria in the 19 th and 20 th Centuries (Enugu: Magnet Computer Services, 2001), 90. Origin and Development of Blacksmithing in Nkwerre to 1945 Jan 1977
In Awka, Anambra State Nigeria, this occupation has come under intense threats associated with modernity. The paper attempts a theoretical analysis of threats associated with modernity as it affects the local blacksmithing industry, using the skill discretion model as analytical tool. Keywords – Blacksmithing, New Technology, Entrepreneurship ...
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Metal work, iron smelting, blacksmithing, goldsmithing ( ... However, within the Nigerian educational context, there seems to be a lack of such articulate discussions. It is against this ...
the declining conditions of the traditional art of blacksmithing in Southeastern Nigeria. Some of them include: the modern technological advancement accompanied by the influx of foreign
Iron smelting and forging technologies may have existed in West Africa among the Nok culture of Nigeria as early as the sixth century B.C. In the period from 1400 to 1600, iron technology appears to have been one of a series of fundamental social assets that facilitated the growth of significant centralized kingdoms in the western Sudan and along the Guinea coast of West Africa.
Blacksmithing in Benin City, Nigeria is of significant antiquity. The popularity and importance of the practice in the city is reinforced in the blacksmiths guild's attachment to the palace of the …
published in Nigeria in 1923 as the Nigerian Teacher, its title latter changed to Nigeria in 1927 and later became the federal government cultural information journal" (Fasuyi, 1973 p. 23).
The article examines the cultural technology of indigenous Igbo prior to colonialism. It argues that local people produced various industrial, agricultural and domestic items through the ...
