THE VALUES OF ORAL TRADITION IN THE SONGS OF RABIU G’ENE G ONDE: (AN AGATU WORLD VIEW
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2019-12-08
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Department of English, Nasarawa State University keffi.
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In this article, we analyse the values of oral tradition using the coll ection(s) from the songs of one of the Agatu oral artists named Rabiu G 'qne G ’gnde. We used the theoty of language production generated from the use of the phrases and sentences used by the artiste in question in his oral intellectual display. The theory holds that, the forms of oral and written language are determined by the contexts in which the language is generated. The aim of doing all these is to bring out how important oral tradition is via songs. Oral interview is used as a method or source of information for this discourse. It is discovered in the study that much value are attached to Agatu oral tradition.
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