I Could Speak Until Tomorrow

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Abstract
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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