Bridging the hiatus: Dramatic and poetic elements in Malalo’s kirari

The theme of this paper is farautar jarumta ‘heroic hunting’ in the north-western part of Nigeria. The paper pays particular attention to the kirari ‘praise-epithets’, also called koɗa kai ‘adulation of the self’, of the mafarauta ‘hunters’ as one of the cardinal features of this kind of hunting. I...

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Main Author: Shamsuddeen Bello
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Hamburg University Press 2022-12-01
Series:Afrika und Übersee
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Online Access:https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup1/afrikaunduebersee/article/view/247