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Article Title: Enhancing Capacity Building Opportunities In Civilizations, Indigenous knowledge And Globalization: Dynamism In Aso Oke Production In Yorubaland, Nigeria
by Adu Funmilayo Modupe (Ph.D)

Abstract:
To enhance a civilizational achievement and improve capacity building opportunities, it is important to further exploit the globalization advantages, a process that has brought dynamism to the production of Asookein Yoruba land, Nigeria.This paper examines the institutions for the production of AsoOke, the Yoruba end product of the weaving industry to explore the nexus between local knowledge and that of the wider world in a fusion of civilization attainments resultant from globalization developments. The wide fire effect of globalization has not been limited to the internal environment of the state, but has impacted local knowledge, implicated in the porosity of state and has taken local indigenous technological innovations into international dimensions never experienced prior to this new phenomenon. These impacts have not been limited to the area of production, designing (creativity), distribution and innovative resolutions in dimensions that has further modernized the asooke industry, but has further impacted the use of computer in designing, embroidery applications and lacing(word coinage mine to describe made holes with embroidered edges to form lace patterns) and stoning (application of creative and decorative stones) amongst other new interventions, ensuring an increased acceptability and promoting the popularity of asooke beyond the shores of Nigeria. The paper concludes that local knowledge as explicit in the practice of indigenous institutions (and civilizations)is an important aspect in capacity building and play an important role for sustaining a balanced and acceptable socio economic environment further impacted by globalization to promote industrialization and development in Nigeria.

Keywords: Capacity Building, Indigenous Knowledge, Globalization, AsoOke Production, Nigeria

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