What the forest told me

Ayo Adeduntan

Description

Studies of Yoruba culture and performance tend to focus mainly on standardised forms of performance, and ignore the more prevalent performance culture which is central to everyday life. What the Forest Told Me conveys the elastic nature of African cultural expression through narratives of the Yoruba hunters' exploits. Hunters' narratives provide a window on the Yoruba understanding and explanation of their world; a cosmology that negates the anthropocentric view of creation. In a very literal sense, man, in this peculiar world, is an equal actor with animal and nature spirits with whom he constantly contests and negotiates space.

Informations

• Publié par: NISC (Pty) Ltd
• Date de parution: 12 avril 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781920033439
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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Oladele Olatunde Layiwola …teacher, mentor, idea
About the Series
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AHP Editorial Board Members as at January 2019
AHP Series Editors:
Professor Adigun Agbaje * , University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Professor Emeritus Fred Hendricks, Rhodes University, South Africa
Consultant:
Professor Emeritus Sandra Barnes, University of Pennsylvania, USA (Anthropology)
Board Members:
1 Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Institute of African Studies, Ghana (Gender Studies & Advocacy) (Vice President, African Studies Association of Africa)
2 Professor Kofi Anyidoho, University of Ghana, Ghana (African Studies & Literature) (Director, Codesria African Humanities Institute Program)
3 Professor Ibrahim Bello-Kano, Bayero University, Nigeria (Dept of English and French Studies)
4 Professor Sati Fwatshak, University of Jos, Nigeria (Dept of History & International Studies)
5 Professor Patricia Hayes, University of the Western Cape, South Africa (African History, Gender Studies and Visuality) (SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory)
6 Associate Professor Wilfred Lajul, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Makerere University, Uganda (Dept of Philosophy)
7 Professor Yusufu Lawi, University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania (Dept of History)
8 Professor Bertram Mapunda, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Dept of Archaeology & Heritage Studies)
9 Professor Innocent Pikirayi, University of Pretoria, South Africa (Chair & Head, Dept of Anthropology & Archaeology)
10 Professor Josephat Rugemalira, University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania (Dept of Foreign Languages & Linguistics)
11 Professor Idayat Bola Udegbe, University of Ibadan, Nigeria (Dept of Psychology)
* replaced Professor Kwesi Yankah, Cental Univerity College, Ghana, co-editor from 2013–2016
Published in this series
Dominica Dipio, Gender terrains in African cinema , 2014
Ayo Adeduntan, What the forest told me: Yoruba hunter, culture and narrative performance, 2014
Sule E. Egya, Nation, power and dissidence in third-generation Nigerian poetry in English , 2014
Irikidzayi Manase, White narratives: The depiction of post-2000 land invasions in Zimbabwe , 2016
Pascah Mungwini, I ndigenous Shona Philosophy: Reconstructive insights , 2017
Sylvia Bruinders, Parading Respectability: The Cultural and Moral Aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa , 2017
Michael Andindilile, The Anglophone literary-linguistic continuum: English and indigenous languages in African literary discourse , 2018
Jeremiah Arowosegbe, Claude E Ake: the making of an organic intellectual , 2018
Romanus Aboh, Language and the construction of multiple identities in the Nigerian novel , 2018
Bernard Matolino, Consensus as Democracy in Africa, 2018
Babajide Ololajulo, Unshared Identity : Posthumous paternity in a contemporary Yoruba community, 2018
...a story that must be told never forgives silence . – Okey Ndibe

Originally published in 2014 by Unisa Press, South Africa under ISBN: 978-1-86888-739-2
This edition published in South Africa on behalf of the African Humanities Program by NISC (Pty) Ltd, PO Box 377, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa www.nisc.co.za
NISC first edition, first impression 2019
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Contents
List of Plates & Tables
Acknowledgements
Preface
1 Hunter, Hunting and a Yoruba World
Introduction
Ìgbẹ́ Alágogo : A glimpse into the hunters’ world
Folklore and redefinition of performance
Scope and methodology
2 Art, the Hunter’s World and the Death of Fixity
Introduction
The performance art of hunters’ narratives
Ìbà (Acknowledgement and appeal)
Proverb
Oríkì
Ọfọ̀ incantation
Ìjálá, Ìrèmọ̀jé and the hunter’s allergy to fixity
Conceptualising narrativity between fact and fiction
3 The Hunter and the Other
Introduction
Dualism, African cultural discourse, and the hunter
Man the hunter and the supernatural
Forest the indeterminate
4 Negotiating the Formidable
Introduction
The hunter, the Other and the limits of man
Familiarisation and defamiliarisation
Truth, mythmaking and management of credibility risk
Language and the portrait of anOther world
5 The Hunter on the Airwaves
Introduction
The ethic of silence and the imperative of narrativity
Broadcast media and the ‘sin’ of narrative reconstruction
Conclusion
Appendix A: The narrative of Músílíù Àlàgbé Fìríàáríkú
Appendix B: The narrative of Rábíù Òjó
Appendix C: The narrative of Jọ́ògún Àlàdé
Appendix D: The narrative of Ògúnkúnlé Òjó
Appendix E: The narrative of Ọláníyì Ọládèjọ Yáwóọ ré ̣
Appendix F: The narrative of Kọ̀bọmọjẹ́ Àlàdé
References
Index
List of Plates & Tables
Plate 1.1: The Alágogo boy (left) and his friends making a night round
Plate 1.2: Participants converge as a family arrives on a motorbike
Plate 1.3: The Alágogo gives his blessing and declares the day’s expedition open
Plate 1.4: Ògúnjìmí
Plate 1.5: Jóògún
Plate 1.6: Ọláògún
Plate 1.7: Ògúndélé
Plate 1.8: Ògúnlékè
Plate 1.9: Balódẹ Lawal Ògúntúndé (left)
Plate 1.10: Balódẹ Òtún Làsísì (seated, right)
Plate 1.11: Julius Òkèlọlá
Plate 2.1: Kólá Tirimisiyu Akíntáyò ̣ (second from left) organises Ògún worship and festival, Òké-Àdó, Ibadan
Plate 2.2: Immolating the dog during Akíntáyọ̀’s festival
Plate 2.3: Lawal Oguntunde’s Ogun shrine
Plate 2.4: The outer wall of Oguntunde’s home
Plate 3.1: Moses Ògúnwálé displays his memorabilia
Plate 3.2: Ásìmíyù Ògúndépò Pabíẹkùn shows the gourdlet the spirit gave him
Plate 3.3: Tàfá Àlàdé and audience on Ọdẹ́tẹ̀dó
Plate 3.4: Tàfá Àlàdé on Ọdẹ́tẹ̀dó
Plate 4.1: Pabíẹkùn (right) performing hi