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Performance in Tiv oral poetryessay 1981 • Hagher, Iyorwuese H. (Iyorwuese Harry)
Tiv • Africa > Western Africa
The author documents the different kinds of Tiv poetry and the different settings in which one finds it used and performed. The Tiv language is rich in metaphor in which social action is described in terms of natural phenomena. The use of metaphor is...