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Exploring Nativism in Ademola Dasylva’s Songs of O͕dámo͕lúgbe
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Literature, culture, and language are symmetrically interwoven in humanistic studies. Culture and language provide the resources for literary production, which creative writers, especially poets, often explore. Ademola Dasylva’s Songs of O͕ dámo͕ lúgbe͕ (2006) relies heavily on Yoruba cultural lore. This study explicates several nativistic indices featured in the collection of poems to foreground the socio-cultural background and linguistic competence of Dasylva in Yoruba, despite his Western education in English and literary studies. The research methodology is adopted in this study. It is premised on poetic hermeneutics within the ambits of nativism as a theoretical framework. We discovered that, though a modern African poet who expresses himself in English, proverbs, Yoruba lexemes, code-mixing, folktales, and socio-cultural practices are sufficiently explored in Songs of O͕ dámo͕ lúgbe͕ (2006). These bring the poet's creative ingenuity and literary grandeur to the fore.
