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    A Pragma – Syntactic Analysis of Traditional Nuptial Weep (Ekun Iyawo) Among People of Shao, Kwara State, Nigeria.
    (2016-04) KOLAWOLE SALIU
    Pragmatics is a branch of linguistics that deals with the study of language used in a bid to communicate ideas or feelings. In order to establish the fact that Understanding is the basis of communication, this study focuses on what Utterance means through the pragmatic and syntactic analysis of nuptial weep (Ekun Iyawo). The aim of the study is tailored towards appreciating African Aesthetics with particular reference to the beauty of African indigenous Language (Yoruba for example). In any Yoruba society, nuptial weep (Ekun Iyawo) remains a song rendered by the bride who is about to formally commence marital Life. Since nuptial weep (Ekun Iyawo) is context-sensitive, data were sampled naturally from a collection of Ekun Iyawo in Shao, a community blessed with Culture of her own origin. From the analysis, it has been clearly shown that Austin’s speech act types of illocution and perlocution are used while other relevant tools include metaphor and rhetorical questions. The syntactic features Include conjunctions, vocatives and communicative classification according to utterance. The study therefore finally concludes that Ekun Iyawo, pragmatically, involves declarative and interrogative renditions
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    Creating New Bounds: Identity and Form of African Literature
    (Journal of the Literary Scholars Association, 2025-06) Aliyu Saeedat Bolajoko
    Imagining the future of African literature, popular culture, and the digital humanities provides a rich pool for literary scholars to push the frontiers of the literary enterprise of Africa. Literature of the African continent has grown and is still growing, metamorphosing in diverse forms, and inviting scrutiny that will help upcoming scholars and literature enthusiasts appreciate the growth and extent of this vibrant body of literary art. There is no gainsaying in the fact that African literature is no longer that body that is strictly tailored after, or conditioned by, the literary traditions of other climes. It has come a long way from what Ernest Emenyonu describes as the pre-colonial and colonial European intellectual theory of “If it is not written, it is not Literature!” (3), and which Obiajunwa Wali calls “a minor appendage in the main stream of European literature” (13). The focus of this paper is to examine the African literary enterprise which, I dare to say, is defying old labels, shaking off old restrictions, and carving out new identities. This ambitious exploration I hope to explain to you using the changing dynamics playing out in the different modes through which African literature is taking.