Lawali Maman Toukour, 2024. "Artistic Creativity in Sagalo’s Traditional Oral Praise Song Kadade" ESP-International Journal of English Literature and Linguistics Research (ESP- IJELLR) Volume 2, Issue 1: 17-21.
Oral praise song is a widely spread form of oral poetry in African traditional societies. It is classified among the heroic or epic songs composed to excite and provoke emotional feeling in the person to whom it is addressed. Also, a praise song is artistically conceived to stimulate and encourage combatants on the ground fights and battles. This paper attempts the analysis of the artistic creativity of Sagalo in his masterpiece praise song entitled “Kadade”. The study draws its underpinning from the sociolinguistic approach. The work has revealed, on one hand, a predominant style characterized by the use of literary devices such as proverbs, metaphors, imageries and hyperboles, and on the other hand, it has shown the major literary interest of Sagalo’s traditional oral praise. The study has particularly highlighted the figurative language use by Sagalo in his song, “Kadade” and his capacity to excite the internal and external feeling of the audience.
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Oral Literature, Praise Song, Artistic Creativity, Sagalo.