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Title:Exploring the potential of praise poems for historical reconstruction among the Idepe-Ikale in southeastern Yorubaland
Author:Ogen, OlukoyaISNI
Year:2012
Periodical:History in Africa (ISSN 1558-2744)
Volume:39
Pages:77-96
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:ethnicity
Ikale
praise poetry
External link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/history_in_africa/v039/39.1.ogen.pdf
Abstract:The existing body of literature on the origin of the Idepe-Ikale suggests a Benin provenance and an ethno-cultural identity for the generality of the Idepe-Ikale, a major Ikale subgroup in southeastern Yorubaland in Nigeria. This paper argues that this claim has been largely sustained by the excessive reliance on archival sources for the reconstruction of Ikale precolonial history. Instead, it draws primarily on evidence from praise poems and partly from historical linguistics and ethnography for a reconstruction of Ikale precolonial history. It shows that the results of an examination of 'oriki' (praise poems) are diametrically opposed to the prevailing story of the origin and ethnicity of the people of Idepe. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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