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Women in Obasá’s Poetry
(YORUBA STUDIES REVIEW, 2020) Ayoola Aransi Oladunke
Obasá’s creativity cuts across virtually all aspects of Yorùbá socio-cultural ̣ settings and his works have attracted the attention of various scholars. It is evident that his poems are laden with topical issues that are of national interest. Most of his works, as described by previous scholars, are based on his love for and interest in Yorùbá language, social values, language, style, cultural practices, and the recovery endangered Yoruba oral art (Babalolá 1971, ̣ 1973; Olábimtán 1974a, 1974b; Ògúnsínà 1980; O ̣ látúnji 1982; Akínye ̣ mí 1987, ̣ 1991, 2017; and Nnodim 2006). Tis essay focuses on the representation of women in Obas ̣ á’s poetry, a topic that has not been given adequate attention. ̣ The essay attempts a close reading of Obas ̣ á’s poems within the Feminism and ̣ womanism theoretical frameworks. The research reveals that the representation of women in the poetry of Obasa did not go beyond the stereotypical and derogatory portrayal of women among the Yoruba.
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Sociological approach to Poverty Alleviation
(GLOBAL VISION, 2016) Ayoola Aransi Oladunke
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The Perception of Hyperbole in Yorùbá Oral Literature: A Sociological Approach.
(2024) Àránsí Ayọ̀ọlá Ọládùnńké.
Hyperbole is a figurative language and literary technique in which a speaker or an author uses exaggeration or emphasizes an idea to create strong emotional impressions in Yorùbá oral literature. Hyperbole is a language that consists of linguistics resources employed by literary artists and one of the most important stylistic features often employed by the Yorùbá oral poets, during performance. The Yorùbá poets most of the time take into consideration, the Yorùbá grammatical rules governing the speech, nouns and usage among the Yorùbá people. The main focus of this paper is to analyse hyperbole on how the Yorùbá poets unfold their emotions about the happenings or events in the society in such a way that they will arouse and sustain the interest of the audience. The paper also discusses how conversations and hyperbolic utterances convey messages to the audience with a view to having the easiest understanding of the communication motives. The paper shows that social-cultural relationship between the poet and the audience renders the hyperbolic utterances meaningful and it also contributes to knowledge about the effective use of hyperbole in the Yorùbá society.