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A core value held by Olu was maintaining the dignity and good reputation of his immediate lineage. This traditional Yoruba ideal, which he verbalized as keeping the family name spotless, could be upheld only by constant unreproachable conduct. This was a difficult burden, for a single thoughtless act by himself or any person under his charge could undo the results of generations of self-control and create a blemish that would be remembered and recalled in the future.
Plotnicov, Leonard1971, Strangers in the City: Urban Man in Jos, Nigeria. University of Pittsburgh Press, p. 87
In the more traditional areas, men greeted me with a grin, raised fist, and shouts of zaki (lion in Hausa). They were half-kidding, I knew, but I welcomed the friendly gesture.
Plotnicov, Leonard1995 Love, honor, dignity, and respect. In African and African-American Sensibility, Ethnology Monograph 15, edited by M. Coy, Jr. and L. Plotnicov, p. 48
Leonard Plotnicov
Leonard Plotnicov (Professor) received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1964.
He is a cultural anthropologist interested in understanding complex modern society by applying the perspective and wisdom gained from a century of anthropology's collective ethnographic fieldwork experience.
He has conducted research in such diverse places as West African cities and the Borscht Belt resort area of New York state.
His current work in Pittsburgh treats the political economy of central business district developments.