| Sumario: | This paper examines and discusses themes in Yorùbá poems written by women, and contends that the poems are topical socio-political commentary that at the time of publication pre-occupied Yorùbá society and Nigeria at large. Thus discussion will feature the recurrent themes of women, men, and the state of the nation via health, morality and religion to present women as serious literary artists who reflect on what is happening in the wider society and vivisect issues on women objectively without feminine sentiments. Second, the female poets in this study have enabled us to read the minds of women on various issues affecting women and humanity as a whole as they called on women to speak out to condemned the barbaric attitudes of some men towards women, and therefore have challenged men to take a critical look at their biased opinion of women and change their attitudes for the upliftment of society. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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