International Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics ISSN: 2689-9450 Volume 5, Issue 2, 2022 (pp. 26-34) 26 Article DOI: 10.52589/IJLLL-DPGKPMLV DOI URL: https://doi.org/10.52589/IJLLL-DPGKPMLV www.abjournals.org ORAL TRADITION AND AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTALISM IN WASIU ABIMBOLA’S YORUBA MOVIE, IKOKO EBORA Dr. Saeedat Bolajoko Aliyu Department of English and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Management and Social Sciences, Kwara State University, Malete, Nigeria E-mail: saeedataliyu@yahoo.com; saeedat.aliyu@kwasu.edu.ng ABSTRACT: The oral tradition in African society has always served the purpose of transmitting the values of the African people across generations among other functions of entertaining and provoking critical thought. In the emerging global concern over environmental sustainability, understanding the perspective from which people view and interact with the environment around them would provide insights into the human-induced challenges facing it, and how these challenges can be overcome. This paper thus posited that the oral repertoires of African societies would provide insights into the people’s perspective of the environment around them. This paper, therefore, undertook an examination of the oral literary forms such as incantations, proverbs, myths, and songs in Wasiu Abimbola’s Yoruba film titled Ikoko Ebora for the deployment of environmental aesthetics which are peculiar to the Yoruba culture. The study concluded that the deployment of environmental agencies in oral literary forms reflects the African conception of the environment as a functional entity and a complementary agency for the use of man. KEYWORDS: Oral Literature, Africa, Environmentalism, Functionality, Yoruba Cite this article: Aliyu S.B. (2022), Oral Tradition and African Environmentalism in Wasiu Abimbola’s Yoruba Movie, Ikoko Ebora. International Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics 5(2), 26-34. DOI: 10.52589/IJLLL- DPGKPMLV. Manuscript History Received: 25 May 2022 Accepted: 20 June 2022 Published: 30 June 2022 Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which permits anyone to share, use, reproduce and redistribute in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.