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The Transition from Yorùbá Metaphysics to Islamic Aesthetics in Ọláńrewájú Adépọ̀ jù's Poetry (YORUBA STUDIES REVIEW VOL.2, 2 SPRING,2018)
YORUBA STUDIES REVIEW VOL.2, NO.2 SPRING ISSN 2473-4713 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN The Transition from Yorùbá Metaphysics to Islamic Aesthetics in Ọláńrewájú Adépọ̀jù’s Poetry Stephen Toyin Ogundipe Department of English Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. st.ogundipe@gmail.com; stogundipe@oauife.edu.ng Abstract This paper explores the poetry of Ọláńrewájú Adé p̣̀jù, a major contemporary Yorùbá poet, based in Ibadan, southwestern Nigeria. Much of the scholarship on the poet focuses purely on his sociopolitical interest, but the development of his craft has been largely ignored. This paper examines peculiar features of Adép̣̀ jù’s poetry based on its fusion of Yorùbá cultural and Islamic religious values with the view to theoretically characterizing his practice. It draws on purposefully selected, recorded audio poetic compositions of Adé p̣̀ jù produced between 1974 and 2012 in order to yield a comprehensive view of his poetics. It employs hybridity, an aspect of postcolonial theory ad-vanced by Homi Bhabha, as a theoretical framework to analyze the texts. The essay reveals that Adép̣̀ jù’s poetry grows from the si
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Láńrewájú Adépọ̀jù: A Tribute
The following text was drafted during a collective effort some years ago to secure a public honor for Láńrewájú Adépọ̀jù, the leading Yoruba poet and man of letters. The authors of the text consider it apposite as a tribute to the extraordinary poet, and present it here as additional information that should benefit the general public.
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The poet Láńrewájú Adépọ̀jù who died on December 9, 2023 at the age of 83 was, in our estimation, an artist of extraordinary talent. He made exceptional contribution to the development of Yoruba poetry and was noted for his exemplary defense of human rights through his art. Adépọ̀jù defied the constraints that his poor background posed to his education to acquire literacy outside the formal school environment. After trying his hands at many vocations in Ibadan, he developed his endowment as a poet, first as a staff of the Old Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service and later as an independent practitioner.
Adépọ̀jù earned an enviable stature as a foremost Yoruba poet, having been associated with more developments that have transformed the value, content, and craft of the art as much as any other poet. A published author of dramatic works, with titles such as Ladepo Ọmọ Adanwo, S’Agba Di Were, as well as the
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