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1893–1944

Nathaniel Akinremi Fadipe (2 October, 1893 – 1944) was a Nigerian researcher and pan-African anti-colonial activist. After studying in Nigeria, Britain and the United States, Fadipe taught economics at the Achimota College in the early 1930s.

Also known as: Nathaniel Akinremi Fadipe

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Proverb is the horse of thought; when thought is lost, it is to proverb one turns for its recovery.

The extended-family unit is a primary instrument for the maintenance of socio-economic security and social order.

The prevalent form of human dwelling-place in Yorubaland is a collection of apartments for individual families. These apartments together are known as the compound, or to the Yoruba as agbo ile.

The existence of different systems of religious values among the Yoruba has modified traditional concepts of blood and affinal relationship.

Though married women may not have any inheritance right to their husbands' property, they are autonomous in the sense that they can accumulate their own properties, to which their husbands cannot lay claim.

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