African literature african literature oral traditions and the written word. Thiongo ngugi wa, the language of african literature, nlr. The significance of performance in actualization, transmission, and composition. Ancient egyptian scribes, early hausa and swahili copyists and memorizers, and contemporary writers of popular novellas have been the obvious and crucial transitional figures in the movement.
Abstract it has been pointed out that word is multifaceted as a communicated scenery. Some definitions are more complex than others, but all essentially recognize the riddle as a word game in which the elements of intellectual exercise and verbal skill are combined to varying degrees. Pdf on may 18, 2018, annikki kaivolabregenhoj and others published the riddle. Yoruba cultural studies edited byedited by m0y0 okediji m0y0 okediji this volume is under construction the university of african art press, 2008 denver, co. On the basis of comparative studies between the dynastic tradition of the. Yoruba and ancient near eastern history, the present article argues that yoruba traditions of provenance, claiming immigration from the near east, are basically correct. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. First, that there is always an attempt to match the. Article pdf available in journal of english language and literature 6.
The yoruba culture, for the present purpose, can be defined as follows. Transmission of scientific knowledge in yoruba oral literature. Defining riddles precisely is hard and has attracted a fair amount of scholarly debate. It defines the concept of omoluabi as a morally sound and upright person, and also, omoluabi as the standard which determines the morality and the immorality of an act in yoruba society in africa.
This revised edition makes finnegans groundbreaking research available to the next generation of scholars. This paper focuses on reviving the african culture of omoluabi in the yoruba race as a means of adding value to education in nigeria. A sociohistorical exposition and annotated translation. African literature oral traditions and the written word. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext.
The first major modern attempt to define the riddle was by robert petsch in 1899, with another seminal contribution, inspired by structuralism, by robert a. The igbo repertory of oral literature finds expressions in prose narratives. Riddles have significant social roles which may be latent or overt. Owomoyela and the modernist inflections of yoruba proverbs. Yoruba literature is the spoken and written literature of the yoruba people, one of the largest ethnolinguistic groups in nigeria and the rest of africa. The article concentrates on the true or the ordinary riddle, which is the bestknown of the old riddles. Forest of a thousand daemons city lights bookstore. This book takes readers into the hitherto unexplored undercurrents of one of the socalled minor genres of african orature riddles.
The result is an energetic contribution of aplomb quality. Remembrances from my life as a german settler in south west africa. The examples of nigerian yoruba bata and dundun, p. Africa possesses both written and unwritten traditions. The aggregate of the ways of life of the yorubaspeaking peoples of southwestern nigeria and their kiths and kins elsewhere in the world. The handbook of yoruba religious concepts ifa karade. Dec 28, 2010 the result is an energetic contribution of aplomb quality.
The book, the bible of the traditional yoruba religion, is 6 x 9, has 271 pp with photographs. It will also be a model for reconfiguring the study of african orature in general. Analysis and interpretation ades ola o late ju university of ibadan, nigeria abstract the paper undertakes a study of animal metaphors in the yoruba language with a view to highlighting the stylistic and communicative potentials of these metaphors. Origin of the yoruba and the lost tribes of israel dierk lange abstract. In riddling the answerer or riddlee tries to find an acceptable answer to the question. From coppolas lost in translation to televisions house m. African literature the influence of oral traditions on. Yoruba creativity download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Orature and yoruba riddles book now this site is like a library use search box in the widget to get that you wantorature and yoruba riddles by akinyemi akintunde. True riddles consist of two parts, one functioning as a question, the other as an answer. Oral and written storytelling traditions have had a parallel development, and in many ways they have influenced each other.
Themes in the literary traditions of contemporary africa are worked out frequently within the strictures laid down by the imported religions christianity and islam and within the struggle between traditional and modern, between rural and newly urban, between genders, and between generations. Issue 2 african studies quarterly university of florida. This book provides detailed instruction of practical usage of ifa by practitioners and nonpractitioners and answers many questions with respect to how to pray the ifa way. Reviews readers unfamiliar with the yoruba will find the introduction a concise and valuable overview of their language and its dialects, recent history, mythology and religion, and diaspora movements. Orature and yoruba riddles takes readers into the hitherto unexplored undercurrents of riddles in africa. This must be a companion text for any serious student of yoruba culture, philosophy, arts, aesthetics, and of course oral literature. Through painstaking research, he wrote that the yoruba religion had its origin in.
He is author of orature and yoruba riddles and yoruba royal poetry. T he language of african literature cannot be discussed meaningfully outside the context of those social forces which have made it both an issue demanding our attention, and a problem calling for a resolution. Orature and yoruba riddles ebok a akinyeme, akintunde. Click download or read online button to get yoruba creativity book now. Yoruba oral poetry has its own characteristic features. It may be surprising to find riddles included in a survey of oral literature. Ifayoruba fundamentals of the yoruba religion orisa worship chief fama. Yoruba oral literature as a panacea for unemployment in nigeria. It defines the concept of omoluabi as a morally sound and upright person, and also, omoluabi as the standard which determines the morality and the immorality of an act in. The role of orature in african sociocultural space. Lucas, the first indigene to write about yoruba religion was an acclaimed egyptologist in his life time, and perhaps the only intel lectual among the anglican clergy in his time. Pdf the role of orature in african sociocultural space. Multifaces of word in yoruba orature george olusola ajibade obafemi awolowo university, ile ife, nigeria.
Orature,and,yoruba,riddles full online created date. It is a commendable output, which makes pronouncements that further rekindles hope and sustained interest in african cultural studies. Orature,and, yoruba, riddles full online created date. African literature african literature the influence of oral traditions on modern writers. Because of its oral and all too often ephemeral nature, riddles have escaped close scrutiny from scholars. Not surprisingly, different scholars define riddles in different ways. Yoruba folktales, the new media and ostmodernism 79 mutual collaboration between the performer of folktales and hisher audience, there is a need for the skillful mastery of the content and the technique of. It is a continuum beginning from their subsistence, communal, agrarian life of the. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, drum language and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in africa. Georges and dundes suggested that a riddle is a traditional verbal expression. The former are relatively well knownat any rate the recent writings in european languages much work remains to be publicized on earlier arabic and local written. Jun 19, 2014 yoruba language lesson, yoruba riddles. At this juncture, we want to see how yoruba oral literature could serve as a panacea for this problem of unemployment.
Written by yoruba experts on all continents, the seventyfive chapters in the volume employ a variety of multifaceted perspectives to provide a detailed study of the yoruba people with insights from anthropology, arts, language and linguistics, literature. All of these are part of the yoruba art of being, and thus, are a configuration of culture. This paper therefore sets out to use yoruba oral literature as a medium of expression to explicate the. The yoruba language is spoken in nigeria, benin, and togo, as well as in dispersed yoruba communities throughout the world. Akintunde akinyemi, author of yoruba orature and riddles arts of being yoruba is timely and strategic. Orature and yoruba riddles takes readers into the hitherto unexplored. Click download or read online button to get yoruba mythology book now. The place of yoruba oral literature in unemployment in nigeria yoruba people as earlier noted in this paper are predominantly farmers, hunters, weavers. A riddle is a statement or question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved. Yoruba mythology download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Jun 27, 2017 culture and customs of the yoruba this innovative anthology presents an interdisciplinary approach to yoruba culture and customs. Olatunji 1984 have worked extensively on features of yoruba oral poetry generally and. Yoruba did not have a common written form before the.
The strength of the yoruba as the focus of this study is impressive indeed. The representation of translation and translators in contemporary media in an increasingly global and multilingual society, translators have transitioned from unobtrusive stagehands to key intercultural mediatorsa development that is reflected in contemporary media. E being a translation of ogboju ode ninu igbo irunmale by wole soyinka. The aggregate of the ways of life of the yoruba speaking peoples of southwestern nigeria and their kiths and kins elsewhere in the world. This book takes the inclusive energy of ifa to a new level by offering simple, comparative excerpts from religious texts from differing religions, even a list of chakras and their yoruba counterparts. Also an established writing and literary tradition, the yoruba have asserted themselves as a dominant. In songs, dance and drama the fame of the yoruba of nigeria is firmly established and universally acknowledged. The study of yoruba religious tradition in historical. Oyekan owomoyela and the other ancestors will surely smile.
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