Mofeyisara Oluwatoyin Omobowale
Biographic Data
| ID | 646035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mofeyisara Oluwatoyin Omobowale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mofeyisara Oluwatoyin |
| FAMILY NAME | Omobowale |
| SIGNATURE | OMOBOWALE M O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ibadan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9988-500X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Decolonising sociology through popular culture-music research: Nigeria’s liberal democracy in focus
The discipline of sociology digs out the empirical reality of societies based on affirmed epistemological frameworks. Sociological theory, methodology and research in Nigeria are deeply encapsulated in dominant Western-oriented epistemes and objectivity designs aimed at value-free assumptions, yet they are non-universally applicable to ascertaining nuanced realities with impacting outcomes. Guided by Justin Labinjoh’s 1982 Metaphor of Change to e…
A Person Taking Care of the Sick is also a Sick Person”: Challenges and Consequences of Hospital-Based Informal Caregiving
Informal caregivers support relatives in healthcare facilities globally. However, their involvement in hospitalization care while residing in and around the hospital is more prevalent in under-resourced settings. This article examined the challenges and multifaceted consequences of hospital-based informal caregiving in a Nigerian tertiary health facility. The study adopted a non-experimental exploratory research design and ethnographic and qualit…
Solving teenage and young mothers’ childhood immunization hesitance and non-compliance through mobile immunization friendly service for working mothers in Ibadan, Nigeria- A research note
Mobile Immunization for working mothers (SheVaccs) is an intervention targeted at working mothers in the informal markets of Ibadan to address problem of vaccine hesitance and drop-out among different categories of mother. These mothers have great responsibilities–keeping their homes stable and their children healthy. But these mothers have challenges of different magnitudes that prevented them from immunizing their children, and for teenage moth…
“You Will Not Mourn Your Children”: Spirituality and Child Health in Ibadan Urban Markets
Contextual reflections on Covid-19 and informal workers in Nigeria
Purpose The index case of COVID-19 in Nigeria was reported on 27 February 2020. Subsequently, the exponential increase in cases has brought about the partial and total lockdown of cities, the closure of all schools and the shutdown of government offices in order to curtail the spread of COVID-19. COVID-19 and its subsequent drastic curtailment policies have implications on vulnerable groups, especially, informal workers who constitute about 70% o…
Oju and Inu: Solidarity in the Informal Market Space in Ibadan, Nigeria
Informal markets provide employment for a large spectrum of Nigerians. These markets provide access to livelihood for those willing to work within the market environment and operate within its rules. A major normative value, which also spells out the ethics in the informal market space, is solidarity-in-completion. Indeed, traders are in competition, but they also solidarize for individual and market progress. This article examines the context of…
Class, Gender, Sexuality, and Leadership in Bodija Market, Ibadan, Nigeria
Bodija market is the largest informal foodstuff market in Ibadan, southwestern Nigeria. At its inception in the 1980s, leadership of the market space followed long-standing Yoruba tradition, prioritizing the role of older women. This pattern of leadership continued until the mid-1990s, when former government workers, laid off upon implementation of the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), moved into the market as traders and eventually as the l…
The context of children in Yoruba popular culture
The Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria describes children as the heritage of the society because children occupy a special place in societal survival and continuity. Children are esteemed and appreciated. Thus, the embedded culture propagates the essentiality of children, the need for proper socialisation and internalisation to make a responsible being ( Omoluabi). Also, children are prioritised above material wealth, and the essentiality of child we…
Vulgar Lyrics in Nigeria’s Twenty-First-Century Popular Music: St. Janet and Olamide (Badoo)
Central Fatness among Secondary School Adolescents in Ibadan, Nigeria
One of the most pressing health problems facing public health in the world today is the astronomically increasing over weight and obesity cases among children and adolescents and Nigeria is not an exception to this problem. The increase in weight and obesity in reality cannot be separated from socio-cultural issues, simply because it cuts across all gender and classes. This study therefore, examined the context (reality in line with existing medi…
Pàrágà. Socioeconomic Context of the Production and Utilization of Alcoholic Herbal Remedy in Ibadan, Nigeria
Anthropos , Seite 149 - 162
The context of children in Yoruba popular culture
The Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria describes children as the heritage of the society because children occupy a special place in societal survival and continuity. Children are esteemed and appreciated. Thus, the embedded culture propagates the essentiality of children, the need for proper socialisation and internalisation to make a responsible being ( Omoluabi). Also, children are prioritised above material wealth, and the essentiality of child we…
Class, Gender, Sexuality, and Leadership in Bodija Market, Ibadan, Nigeria
Bodija market is the largest informal foodstuff market in Ibadan, southwestern Nigeria. At its inception in the 1980s, leadership of the market space followed long-standing Yoruba tradition, prioritizing the role of older women. This pattern of leadership continued until the mid-1990s, when former government workers, laid off upon implementation of the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), moved into the market as traders and eventually as the l…
Decolonising sociology through popular culture-music research: Nigeria’s liberal democracy in focus
The discipline of sociology digs out the empirical reality of societies based on affirmed epistemological frameworks. Sociological theory, methodology and research in Nigeria are deeply encapsulated in dominant Western-oriented epistemes and objectivity designs aimed at value-free assumptions, yet they are non-universally applicable to ascertaining nuanced realities with impacting outcomes. Guided by Justin Labinjoh’s 1982 Metaphor of Change to e…
Pàrágà. Socioeconomic Context of the Production and Utilization of Alcoholic Herbal Remedy in Ibadan, Nigeria
Anthropos , Seite 149 - 162
Central Fatness among Secondary School Adolescents in Ibadan, Nigeria
One of the most pressing health problems facing public health in the world today is the astronomically increasing over weight and obesity cases among children and adolescents and Nigeria is not an exception to this problem. The increase in weight and obesity in reality cannot be separated from socio-cultural issues, simply because it cuts across all gender and classes. This study therefore, examined the context (reality in line with existing medi…
Vulgar Lyrics in Nigeria’s Twenty-First-Century Popular Music: St. Janet and Olamide (Badoo)
The context of children in Yoruba popular culture
The Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria describes children as the heritage of the society because children occupy a special place in societal survival and continuity. Children are esteemed and appreciated. Thus, the embedded culture propagates the essentiality of children, the need for proper socialisation and internalisation to make a responsible being ( Omoluabi). Also, children are prioritised above material wealth, and the essentiality of child we…
Oju and Inu: Solidarity in the Informal Market Space in Ibadan, Nigeria
Informal markets provide employment for a large spectrum of Nigerians. These markets provide access to livelihood for those willing to work within the market environment and operate within its rules. A major normative value, which also spells out the ethics in the informal market space, is solidarity-in-completion. Indeed, traders are in competition, but they also solidarize for individual and market progress. This article examines the context of…
Class, Gender, Sexuality, and Leadership in Bodija Market, Ibadan, Nigeria
Bodija market is the largest informal foodstuff market in Ibadan, southwestern Nigeria. At its inception in the 1980s, leadership of the market space followed long-standing Yoruba tradition, prioritizing the role of older women. This pattern of leadership continued until the mid-1990s, when former government workers, laid off upon implementation of the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), moved into the market as traders and eventually as the l…
Contextual reflections on Covid-19 and informal workers in Nigeria
Purpose The index case of COVID-19 in Nigeria was reported on 27 February 2020. Subsequently, the exponential increase in cases has brought about the partial and total lockdown of cities, the closure of all schools and the shutdown of government offices in order to curtail the spread of COVID-19. COVID-19 and its subsequent drastic curtailment policies have implications on vulnerable groups, especially, informal workers who constitute about 70% o…
“You Will Not Mourn Your Children”: Spirituality and Child Health in Ibadan Urban Markets
Solving teenage and young mothers’ childhood immunization hesitance and non-compliance through mobile immunization friendly service for working mothers in Ibadan, Nigeria- A research note
Mobile Immunization for working mothers (SheVaccs) is an intervention targeted at working mothers in the informal markets of Ibadan to address problem of vaccine hesitance and drop-out among different categories of mother. These mothers have great responsibilities–keeping their homes stable and their children healthy. But these mothers have challenges of different magnitudes that prevented them from immunizing their children, and for teenage moth…
A Person Taking Care of the Sick is also a Sick Person”: Challenges and Consequences of Hospital-Based Informal Caregiving
Informal caregivers support relatives in healthcare facilities globally. However, their involvement in hospitalization care while residing in and around the hospital is more prevalent in under-resourced settings. This article examined the challenges and multifaceted consequences of hospital-based informal caregiving in a Nigerian tertiary health facility. The study adopted a non-experimental exploratory research design and ethnographic and qualit…
Decolonising sociology through popular culture-music research: Nigeria’s liberal democracy in focus
The discipline of sociology digs out the empirical reality of societies based on affirmed epistemological frameworks. Sociological theory, methodology and research in Nigeria are deeply encapsulated in dominant Western-oriented epistemes and objectivity designs aimed at value-free assumptions, yet they are non-universally applicable to ascertaining nuanced realities with impacting outcomes. Guided by Justin Labinjoh’s 1982 Metaphor of Change to e…
Sociology (11 works) · Geography (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Livelihood (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)