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After the oral Artist has taken the audience through his narration, the audience must punctuate the story with exclamation applause of various degrees and the spontaneous response from the audience in the oral context is synonymous with active reading strategies of a written novel, poetry or drama, the reader‟s own comments, and evaluating strategies. In orature, audience ability to predict the likely end to the story confirms the audience as listening audience as oral literary audience must not be a dormant or sleeping audience, hence his active involvement is a necessary feedback on the Artist which serve as a motivating factor for the Artist who gets encouraged to continue his oral researches for the purpose of excelling in his chosen trade and to further satisfy his audience.

Fig. 1 Archtectural Pattern of African oral Literature

Source: Adapted from Stanley ORIOLA, (2011) Key

0+ constant Oral materials from pool of tradition are conventionally constant with its moralistic tales.

Rising pillar of orature

Foreign interpferences on African orature A – Z Expanding but elastic pool of orature

Z E D

C B A

The Rich elastic pool of Oral African literature

Drama Poetry

Prose Others

0+ constant

Edifice and or foundation of African philosophy and Education, where moralistic tales abound.

Expanding but elastic infinite pool of oral African rendition

„Architecture‟ and

„building block‟ of oral African literature Interferences from foreign or recipient cultures, i.e. English, French, Portuguese, etc

Rising pillar of oral African literature

X

X Error factor in African orature

Interpretations of Figure (I)

0+ Constant Indicates the rich pool of oral African literature where moralistic tales abound in brands of conventional African education and philosophy. The rising arrow located at the right hand side of the diagramme is the rising and or elastic pillar of oral African literature. The arrow extends to the pinnacle of the architectural design, even beyond to indicate the infiniteness of African orature despite foreign interferences. The broken arrow to the left, next to the rising pillar is the presence of foreign cultural interferences in oral African literature. Usually, such interferences are noticeable in African‟s recipient cultures/imposed languages of our colonial masters such as English, French and Portuguese. A – Z indicates the expanding pool of African orature.

The arrow to the extreme left hand side of the figure that curved inward, is marked with three “XXX” to indicate the “error factor” in oral African literature.

The „error factor‟ is misconceptions and the conflicting foreign values and battered new image that has been imported into and or ascribed to oral African literature by foreign tutelage and other forms of ideological impositions for the purpose of cultural disorientation and domination.

SELF ASSESSMENT EXERCISE I

With the aid of orature drawn from the pool of tradition of your people, discuss the building blocks and what makes up the „architecture‟ of the oral literature of your people.

4.0 CONCLUSION

In this unit, we have defined „architecture‟ and „building blocks‟ in relation to oral African Literature. We have also given a figure that represents the „growing‟

(rising pillar) pattern of oral African Literature from its sufficient oral source of wealthy generous pool of its infinite pool of inferences. Adequate interpretation of the figure has been provided to expantiate our perspective of oral African Literature consider our novel idea here as you study the unit, and put all you have learnt into practise so that your work can justify the fact that you are from a rich African cultural background.

5.0 SUMMARY

In this unit, you have learnt that

 orature passes through some designs the same way a building must necessarily undergo some form of architectural designs

 you can identify the „building blocks‟ and architectural design of the oral literature of your people

 it is possible to differentiate between audience reaction and expository order of naratology of oral African poetry

 orature has its own source

 orature still suffer certain interferences in modern time

 orature by its nature is elastic.

In the next unit, you will be introduced to the factors that hinder the growth and development of oral African Literature (I).

6.0 TUTOR-MARKED ASSIGNMENTS

Read and answer the questions below

1) Explain the two of the factors that constitute the building block of oral African Literature.

2) What is meant by audience evaluation and prediction in orature?

3) Differentiate between a story and moralistic story in orature.

4) Use two of the architectural designs of oral African Literature to justify a chosen orature of your people or from any part of Africa.