GST111 Nigerian Peoples and Culture Vocabulary Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms, historical figures, economic concepts, and sociological definitions from GST111 (Nigerian Peoples and Culture) lecture materials.

Creoles

The group recognized as the pioneers of western education in Nigeria.

Mary Slessor

A historical missionary in Nigeria noted for stopping the practice of killing twins.

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

The historical system of slave trading across the Atlantic Ocean, otherwise known as the triangular trade.

Uthman Dan Fodio

The Islamic scholar and leader whose primary pre-occupation during the 1804 Jihad was the purification of Islam in the North.

White Calabash

A symbolic object in the Oyo Empire representing a vote of no confidence on the Oba.

Afonja

The Aare-ona-kankofo who rebelled against the Alafin of Oyo.

Totem

A sacred animal or object associated with and revered by a specific group or clan.

Anthony Enahoro

The Nigerian politician who first moved a motion for Nigeria's independence in parliament.

Prescriptive Norms

Social norms that define acceptable, approved, or required modes of behaviour, thinking, and feeling in a given society.

Proscriptive Norms

Social norms that define unacceptable, unapproved, or prohibited human actions and behaviours in a society.

Exogamy

The social rule or practice of marrying outside a defined social or kinship group.

Endogamy

The social rule or practice of marrying within a defined social or kinship group.

Sororate

A marriage custom requiring or allowing a widower to marry an unmarried sister of his deceased wife.

Levirate

A marriage custom in which a man marries the widow of his deceased brother and raises children in the dead man's name.

Culture Lag

The delay in the response or adaptation of non-material culture to rapid changes occurring in material culture.

Culture Area

The geographical boundaries or territorial designation where a specific culture exerts its primary influence.

Folkways

Conventional social practices accepted as appropriate within a society but not strictly enforced or insisted upon.

Habituation

The process of internalizing an action through regular repetition, turning it into a social routine.

Polyandry

A marriage structure where one woman is married to several husbands at the same time.

Polygyny

A marriage structure where one man is married to several wives at the same time.

Free Enterprise Economy

An economic system driven predominantly by individual self-interest where decisions are made by private entities.

Communist Economy

An economic system in which state control determines income distribution and individual state ownership replaces private property.

Hamitic Hypothesis

The Eurocentric hypothesis positing that civilizational traits in Africa were alien to the continent and introduced by foreign invaders.

Habe

The term used to describe the pre-Islamic Hausa society and indigenous populace prior to the Fulani Jihad.

Social Contract Theory

A political philosophy asserting that government holds authority on the condition that it protects citizens and attends to their wishes in exchange for civic obligations.