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Globalization is not a new phenomenon, though its current phase in the ‘post-colonial’ third
world generally has been marked more by its intensity, comprehensiveness and universality
than previous phases. This is a major reason why it has been greeted with much resentment
and resistance by the intellectual elites—themselves creations of those same cultural
processes resulting in globalization—of these societies
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1. Publication of a calendar of market days in Osun State, to be expanded within a year
to cover two other neighbouring states and, eventually, all Yoruba states. This is
based on the fact that Yoruba markets are not just commercial institutions but also
socio-cultural institutions.
2. Work on and eventual publication of a calendar of Yoruba festivals, again starting
with Osun State.
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Osun State, the host State and financier of the Centre, is right in the middle of Yoruba country
in the south-west of Nigeria. Yoruba culture and social life have been an urban one for
centuries, and Osun State
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