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1. Critical Review·Vol. 1 No. 4 (2027)Sample

   Highlife Lyrics and the Poetics of Advice

   Ebuka Nnaji

   Highlife songs often speak in the voice of an elder giving advice. This review surveys the advisory mode in Igbo highlife from the 1960s to the present, reading lyrics as moral philosophy set to music. It argues that the genre’s proverbs, warnings and blessing…

   Humanities and Social Sciences