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Whatever the context in which it originally occurred (whether recreational or religious), repetition was first and foremost a token of the joy of recollection

— Isidore Okpewho

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The hero is simply the ordinary man writ large

It’s common among bards to attribute their powers of storytelling to a divine source (or to someone else). But the tale remains unique

In this way, we are inclined to see the poet more as a slave to a fossilized pattern than as a skillful manipulator of sounds and ideas that continually suggest themselves to his mind in the rather challenging circumstances of his act

Isidore Okpewho’s The Epic in Africa (1979)

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