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Item Institutions and the Challenges of Development in Africa(Department of Sociology College of Business and Social Sciences Covenant University Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria, 2019) Onwuma, Anthony C.; George, Tayo O.Africa's development and how it could be engendered has been the subject of scholarly interrogation for many decades. This finds expression in the many development policies fonnulated by African policy makers and political leaders to bail the continent out of the quagmire of underdevelopment. Painfolly, all the achieved results and success stories were disappointingly modest. This paper examines some key institutions such as Economic, Education and the political institutions. It concludes that weak institutions and the failure to fonnulate Afrocentric policies are the bane of development in the continent. Thus, the strengthening and repositioning of institutions in Africa will go a long way in ushering development in Africa.Item Widows’ Socio-Demographic Characteristics and the Observance of Widowhood Rites among the Aworis of Ogun State(Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2016) George, Tayo O.; Omonijo, Dare Ojo; Uche, Onyekwere O. C; Anyaegbunam, Michael Chibuzor; Shaibu, Albert OgucheThis study examined the socio-demographic characteristics of widows in Awori two urban and two rural communities of Awori land in Ogun State, Nigeria and the observance of widowhood rites. It utilized a survey questionnaire containing open and closed ended questions to elicit information from 912 respondents. The linear regression was used in testing the hypothesis formulated for the study, in addition to cross-tabulations and simple percentages. The critical variables in the hypothesis are ten (10) indices which helped to measure the socio-demographic attributes of the widows sampled. The indices are: age, education, income, occupation, number of children, sex of children, religion, type of marriage, form of marriage and place of residence). The purpose was to determine which of these indicators had the most effect on the widowhood practices outcomes. The results revealed no relationships between the dependent and independent variables in the first model except for education and type of marriage which were found to be significantly related to widowhood rites. In the second model, widows’ education and occupation were both positively related to property inheritance and statistically significant. Finally, the study presented conclusion and recommendations on the basis of the findings.