The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Domestic burial: Africa
Adeboye, O. 2016
‘Home burials, church graveyards and public cemeteries: transformations in Ibadan mortuary practice, 1853-1960’, Journal of Traditions and Beliefs, 2:13, 1-13.
Adeforiti, R. 2023
‘Public health implications of government negligence in human corpse management in South-West of Nigeria’, Pan-African Journal of Governance and Development, 4:1, 165-188.
Daramola, O., Ojo, A., & Joel, S. 2014
‘Environmental sanitation perception and practices of the disposal of the dead in the Ile-Ife City, Nigeria’, International Journal of Academic Research in Environment and Geography, 3:1, 15 36.
Mbiba, B. 2010
‘Burial at home? Dealing with the death in the diaspora and Harare’, in J. McGregor & R. Primorac (eds) Zimbabwe’s New Disapora: Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival, New York: Berghahn Books, 144-163.
Ogu, V. 1999
‘Housing as graveyard: a tale of housing culture in Nigeria’, Third World Planning Review, 23:1, 317-330.
Ogunbemi, A., Akinbade, H. , Omunagbe, A. & King, O. 2020
‘Property value of houses with cemeteries, its psychological and health impact at Lagelu local government, Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria’, National Journal of Advanced Research, 6:2, 28-32.
Parker, J. & Zaal, F. 2016
‘Extending recognition of indigenous burial practices in Selomo v Doman 214 JDR 0708 (LCC)’, PER/PELJ, 19.
Seebach, S. 2019
‘Love the dead, fear the dead: creating consolationscapes in post-war northern Uganda’, in C. Jedan, A. Maddrell & E. Venbrux (eds) Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss: Grief and Consolation in Space and Time, London: Routledge, 166-180.
Thompson, O., Abiodun Afolabi, S., Nwaorgu, O. & Aduradola, R. 2020
‘“Oku mi ko gbodo sun ita”: (Mis)appropriation of burial sites and public cemeteries among indigenous people in Egba, Southern Nigeria’, Ethnic Studies Review, 43:1, 125-144 .
