Kemi Adamolekun
Biographic Data
| ID | 6516926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kemi Adamolekun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kemi |
| FAMILY NAME | Adamolekun |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMOLEKUN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Falls Church, Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Survivors' Motives for Extravagant Funerals Among the Yorubas of Western Nigeria
This article highlights the rationale participants provided for what some observers describe as elaborate and extravagant funeral practices in Western Nigeria. This includes the need to achieve psychological, social, and emotional fulfillment and contentment. This underlines the desire of survivors to take care of themselves. The article concludes that professionals in the death, dying, and bereavement field should accept the survivors as they ar…
Survivors' Motives for Extravagant Funerals Among the Yorubas of Western Nigeria
This article highlights the rationale participants provided for what some observers describe as elaborate and extravagant funeral practices in Western Nigeria. This includes the need to achieve psychological, social, and emotional fulfillment and contentment. This underlines the desire of survivors to take care of themselves. The article concludes that professionals in the death, dying, and bereavement field should accept the survivors as they ar…
Bereavement Salutations among the Yorubas of Western Nigeria
The Yoruba people of South Western Nigeria have traditionally supported the bereaved with verbal phrases that are helpful in addressing the unique mourning situation. The death of a spouse, a child, a parent, or a sister call for different salutations. The age of the deceased, the cause of death, and the circumstances surrounding the death are taken into consideration in these salutations. The appropriate expression of these phrases form part of …
Openness of Health Professionals about Death and Terminal Illness in a Nigerian Teaching Hospital
Most physicians in developed countries are reported to have a sense of responsibility to inform a patient about the facts of his or her life-threatening condition. This study reports doctors' and nurses' responsibility to their terminally ill patients in an African environment. Since, by local tradition, doctors are not supposed to convey bad news and the patients do not see themselves as dying of illness, the doctors are not enthusiastic about i…
In-Laws Behavior as a Social Factor in Subsequent Temporary Upsurges of Grief (Stug) in Western Nigeria
Many factors have been identified to produce upsurges that complicate the grief process, making it more painful and tortuous. The study reported here critically assesses two reactions of in-laws in Western Nigeria that are detrimental to effective grieving. These reactions deal first with the accusation that the widow was responsible for the death of her husband. The second reaction is dispossessing her and her children of common property. The re…
Survivors' Motives for Extravagant Funerals Among the Yorubas of Western Nigeria
This article highlights the rationale participants provided for what some observers describe as elaborate and extravagant funeral practices in Western Nigeria. This includes the need to achieve psychological, social, and emotional fulfillment and contentment. This underlines the desire of survivors to take care of themselves. The article concludes that professionals in the death, dying, and bereavement field should accept the survivors as they ar…
In-Laws Behavior as a Social Factor in Subsequent Temporary Upsurges of Grief (Stug) in Western Nigeria
Many factors have been identified to produce upsurges that complicate the grief process, making it more painful and tortuous. The study reported here critically assesses two reactions of in-laws in Western Nigeria that are detrimental to effective grieving. These reactions deal first with the accusation that the widow was responsible for the death of her husband. The second reaction is dispossessing her and her children of common property. The re…
Openness of Health Professionals about Death and Terminal Illness in a Nigerian Teaching Hospital
Most physicians in developed countries are reported to have a sense of responsibility to inform a patient about the facts of his or her life-threatening condition. This study reports doctors' and nurses' responsibility to their terminally ill patients in an African environment. Since, by local tradition, doctors are not supposed to convey bad news and the patients do not see themselves as dying of illness, the doctors are not enthusiastic about i…
Bereavement Salutations among the Yorubas of Western Nigeria
The Yoruba people of South Western Nigeria have traditionally supported the bereaved with verbal phrases that are helpful in addressing the unique mourning situation. The death of a spouse, a child, a parent, or a sister call for different salutations. The age of the deceased, the cause of death, and the circumstances surrounding the death are taken into consideration in these salutations. The appropriate expression of these phrases form part of …
Survivors' Motives for Extravagant Funerals Among the Yorubas of Western Nigeria
This article highlights the rationale participants provided for what some observers describe as elaborate and extravagant funeral practices in Western Nigeria. This includes the need to achieve psychological, social, and emotional fulfillment and contentment. This underlines the desire of survivors to take care of themselves. The article concludes that professionals in the death, dying, and bereavement field should accept the survivors as they ar…
Survivors' Motives for Extravagant Funerals Among the Yorubas of Western Nigeria
This article highlights the rationale participants provided for what some observers describe as elaborate and extravagant funeral practices in Western Nigeria. This includes the need to achieve psychological, social, and emotional fulfillment and contentment. This underlines the desire of survivors to take care of themselves. The article concludes that professionals in the death, dying, and bereavement field should accept the survivors as they ar…
Psychology (5 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Contentment (2 works) · Funeral Rites (2 works) · History (2 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (2 works) · Afterlife (1 work)