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Panelist Ahmednasir M. Abdullahi |
The Migration of the Mythological, Legendary, and Historical Ôrànmíyàn as Depicted in Yorùbá Drama L. O. Arohunmolase and Beatrice Fàtí Arohunmolase, Department of Yorùbá, School of Languages, Adeyemi College of Education, Nigeria There are mythological, legendary, and
historical accounts of the migration of Ôrànmíyàn
who is accepted by the Yorùbá as the last son of Odùduwà.
This paper examines these accounts of migration in order to succinctly
analyze the depiction of Ôrànmíyàn’s
migration as depicted in )j9jol5’s video play entitled Ôrànmíyàn.
The history, legends, and myths of human settlements in Africa, Nigeria
in general, and Yorùbá land in particular, are always
replete with stories of migration from either near places or distant
proto – settlements. The history, myths, and legends of Ôrànmíyàn,
the acclaimed seventh child of Odùduwà, the Progenitor
of the Yorùbá race, are, therefore, no exception of the
patterns of the migrations in Nigeria or Africa. There are stories
of the migration of Ôrànmíyàn at different
periods of the Yorùbá race in places that have now developed
as centres of socio – economic and political activities such
as Benin, Edo State, Ilé – Ifê, Ôzun State,
and Old Ôyö, Ôyö State, in Yorùbá Land.
The major purpose of this paper is to determine the characteristic
features of the migration accounts of the mythological, legendary,
and historical Ôrànmíyàn as depicted in
Yorùbá drama ()j9jol5’s video play Ôrànmíyàn),
produced by Golden Link Productions and Communications Limited, A Subsidiary
of YEM – KEM INTERNATIONAL, NIGERIA LIMITED. |