2025/05/27 by Isaac HORSU & Ebenezer Yao AGBENYO & Joseph BRANTUO
#FOS: Languages and literature
paper · doi:10.48734/akofena.n016.vol.2.32.2025
Abstract : Is it not so sad a reality that in the wake of the modernisation, globalisation, and industrialisation of the 21st century otherwise known as the information age, Africans, particularly Ghanaians, and in the context of this research, the Anlɔ-Ewe, and the Likɛ clan in the microcosm, continue to rely massively on oral tradition for their education and information regarding their belief systems, history and sociology? It is against this background that this study analyses two songs selected from the Likɛ clan with the purpose of documenting them for future reference and study. The study is grounded on Schechner’s Performance theory as its primary theoretical framework, and analyses two traditional Ewe songs with emphasis on the panegyric poetry features embedded in them. The study arrives at the conclusion that Ewe culture has so much literary value in its music, dance, and language that needs documentation, hence there is the need for all stakeholders and people of Ewe origin to study the clan system and document the various literary forms present in the culture. Keywords: Anlɔ-Ewe, Ewe songs, Likɛ clan, Oral Tradition, Panegyric, stylistics