The Significance of Verbal Art in the Yorùbá Indigenous Healthcare

The Significance of Verbal Art in the Yorùbá Indigenous Healthcare

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The study focuses on the Yorùbá verbal arts used in indigenous healthcare system. It shows how some of them are relevant to the orthodox healthcare delivery system. The issue of the utilitarian nature of indigenous literature (orature) and art in general is relevant to this work. In African Literature and art, the aesthetic function and other utilitarian functions are inseparable. The issue of art for art's sake as in Western formalist and new criticisms, structuralism, etc. are not applicable (Ògúndèjì, 2000:3 and 2003). By verbal arts, we mean the various literary genres used in reflec...