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    A critical analysis of thematic contents and stylistic features in oriki of towns in oke-ogun
    (Department of Linguistics and African languages, Faculty of arts, Obafemi Awolowo University., 2022) ADEMUYIWA Adewale Lukman
    The study identified the issues of identity and cultural affinity of Òke Ògùn people of Oyo North Senatorial District in the oríkì of their towns. It also examined the concept of the oral formulaic and intertextuality in the oríkì of towns in Òkè-Ògùn. It further analysed the thematic contents and assessed the stylistic features in oríkì of Òkè-Ògùn towns. These were with a view to bringing to the fore, oral literary and stylistic qualities in the oríkì of Òkè-Ògùn towns. The study employed both primary and secondary sources of data. The primary source comprised a collection of Oríkì of forty towns in Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State gathered from oral, written, audio and audio-visual materials. This was complemented with interviews conducted with 40 purposively selected chanters, drummers and historians, to get more details on Oríkì and historical background of towns in Oke-Ogun. The secondary source included books, journal articles, magazines and the Internet. The collected data were transcribed and analysed within the general theoretical framework of Archetypal theory and Genetic Structuralism. The study revealed that dialect, geographical locations, occupations, religions, beliefs, political structure and oríkì composition patterning are the archetypal elements of identity and cultural affinities of Òke-Ògùn people. The study further revealed names of towns, archetypal founders, archetypal situations, archetypal slangs, kinship terminologies and nominalization as xxiv the oral formulaic used in the formulation of oríkì of towns in Òke-Ògùn, while the insertion of other Yorùbá oral genres such as proverbs, incantation, Ifa literary corpus and songs are concepts of intertextuality in the oríkì of towns in Òke-Ògùn. Also, the study showed that the thematic contents in the oríkì of Òkè-Ògùn towns show common features of reference to their ancestors, origins, behaviours, taboo, foods, deities, manifestation of power, anthropological artefacts and the reference to geographical elements like mountain, rivers and forests. The study further revealed that foregrounded metaphor, simile, metonymy, hyperbole, personification, objectification, repetition, pun, tonal play, onomatopoeia and phonal-aesthetics are notable stylistic features embedded in the oríkì of towns in Òke-Ògùn for aesthetic purpose. The study concluded that the oríkì of towns in Òkè-Ògun showed that geographical locations are not the only indices that bind all these communities together; they also shared common archetypal attributes embedded in their oríkì. Also, oríkì is perceived as a repertory oral poetry through which archetypal elements are kept for incoming generations.