Identity and Memory in Omobóyòdé Àrowá's Oríkì Performance in (Yoruba) Ekiti Dialect.
Oríkì is a significant panegyric poetry in indigenous Yoruba communities of South-Western Nigeria. The different sub-generic forms which characterize its form, and its obvious ethnographic and anthropological histrionics constitute its thrust and aesthetic peculiarities. This paper sets out to exami...
| Published in: | African & Asian Studies Vol. 6; no. 1/2; pp. 173 - 201 |
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2007
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