Kwara State University
Saeedat ALIYU
Designation: Senior Lecturer
Department: Linguistics African and European Languages
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| 1 | Oral tradition and African environmentalism in Wasiu Abimbola’s Ikoko Ebora |
The oral tradition in the African society has always served the purpose of transmitting the values of the African people across generations among other functions. In the emerging global concern over environmental sustainability, understanding the perspective from which a people view and interact with the environment around them would provide insights into the man-induced challenges facing it, and how these challenges can be overcome. This paper thus posited that the oral repertoires of African societies would provide insights into the people’s perspective of the environment around them. This paper therefore undertook an examination of the oral literary forms such as incantations, proverbs, myths, and songs in Wasiu Abimbola’s Yoruba film titled Ikoko Ebora for the deployment of environmental aesthetics which are peculiar to the African culture. The study concluded that the deployment of environmental agencies in oral literary forms reflect the African conception of the environment as a functional entity and a complementary agency for the use of man. Keywords: oral literature, Africa, environmentalism, functionality | Aliyu, S.B. | Vol. 5, Issue 2 | International journal of literature, language and linguistics | 2022-11-06 | https://abjournals.org/ijlll/papers/volume-5/issue-2/oral-tradition-and-african-environmentalism-in-wasiu-abimbolas-yoruba-movie-ikoko-ebora/ | |