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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
Language as a subject
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.