I COULD SPEAK UNTIL TOMORROW: ORIKI, WOMEN AND THE PAST IN A YORUBA TOWN (International African Library)

In this work of literary anthropology, the oriki poetry of Okuku, a small town in the Oyo state of Nigeria, is looked at in detail. Women are the main performers of oriki , or oral praise poetry. As a major part of both performance and daily life, it reflects social change and structure, past, and present, and shows much that is lost to anthropologists otherwise. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.