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I Could Speak Until Tomorrow: Oriki, Women & the Past in a Yoruba Town

By Karin Barber

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9780748699186
DOI
10.1515/9780748699186
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
51 MB (53654392 bytes)
Pages
432\370
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 02:04:37

Description

In Yoruba culture oriki, or oral praise poetry, is a major part of both traditional performance and daily life, and as such reflects social change and structure both past and present. Karin Barber studies the oriki poetry of Okuku, a small town in the Oyo state of Nigeria. She shows how women, the main performers of the oriki, interpret the poems and examines the links it gives them between living and dead, human and spiritual, and present and past.

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