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The evening storytelling tradition, the call-and-response frame that opens it, riddles as a separate discipline, and the Ìjàpá cycle read as a body of ethical and comic literature.

Four Yorùbá sayings Owomoyela identifies as riddles doing double duty as proverbs, alongside the genre theory that explains why òwe and àlọ́ (riddle) are treated as close kin in Yorùbá oral tradition.