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What incantation is as a genre, the theory of language it assumes, why naming and etymology carry force in it, and the tonal and word-play devices it depends on. A description and analysis, not a manual.
The scale of the documented Yoruba pharmacopoeia, how plants are classified and named, the tonal wordplay that makes a plant's name a mnemonic for its use, and a worked table of named plants against what pharmacological research has and has not established.
A comprehensive scholarly study of the life, poetics, taxonomic frameworks, critical debates, and legacy of the Nigerian literary scholar and linguist Professor Ọlátúndé Ọlátúnjí.