The Evergreen Music Heritage Foundation is to hold a Yoruba poetry (Ewi) workshop at the University of Lagos.
The workshop is slated for Tuesday, 10th July at 10am. A statement by Bimbo Esho on behalf of the organiser said the workshop was meant to preserve Nigeria’s cultural heritage, because “Ewi is a form of Yoruba poetry that is being threatened by the influx of civilization and that it is an age long idiom that reflects on totality human culture from cradle to grave.”
The guest speaker is the legendary Yoruba poetry exponent “Ajobiewe” who became popular with his chants in the popular Yoruba family television series “Feyikogbon” in the eighties.
Also expected to speak at the event are three prominent music scholars who have written books and done several presentations on Nigerian Indigenous music. They are Prof Tunji Vidal, a former Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ife, Professor Orimoogunje of Dept. of Linguistics/African and Asian Studies, Dr Stephen Olusoji of Creative Arts Department University of Lagos.
There will also be a public presentation of the complete musical works of Ajobiewe to the Department of Creative Arts and Africans Arts to help further research studies in Ewi while Ajobiewe is to be honoured for his contributions to Nigerian traditional poetry.