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Publication details [#65629]

Adeoluwa Olusegun, Elijah. 2018. The àwadà pehenomenon: exploring humour in Wole Soyinka's Alápatà Apátà. The European Journal of Humour Research 6 (4) : 118–132.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accent1 | comedy | humor | mocking | parody

Language as a subject

Yoruba

Place, Publisher

Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies

Annotation

This paper examines the humor and parody use in Wole Soyinka’s most recent play Alápatà Apátà, in which people viewed a reincarnation of Moses Olaiya. Soyinka centers on the nature of Moses Olaiya and examines the misapplication of Yoruba language’s accent ending in semantic faddiness.