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Josiah Sowande

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Josiah Sowande
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ụdịekerenwoke Dezie
mba o sịColonial Nigeria Dezie
ụbọchị ọmụmụ ya1858 Dezie
Ebe ọmụmụAbeokuta Dezie
Ụbọchị ọnwụ ya1936 Dezie
asụsụ ọ na-asụ, na-ede ma ọ bụ were na-ebinye akaAsụsụ Yoruba Dezie
ọrụ ọ na-arụodee uri, onye ọrụ ugbo Dezie

Josiah Sobowale Sowande (ca 1858 -1936) also known as Sobo Arobiodu was a Yoruba poet from Abeokuta, Ogun State who was a pioneer writer of Ewi, a Yoruba language style of poetry.[1]

Ọrụ ya sitere n'ịzụlite Egba ya, ọrụ nke Christian Missionary Society na Egbaland na abụ Egba a ma ama, ọrụ ya lekwasịrị anya na ndị Egba Christian a tọghatara dị ka ndị na-ege ntị.[2]

A mụrụ Sobowale na Abeokuta, n'ihe dị ka 1858. Ọ mụtara ide ihe na ụlọ ọrụ ọzụzụ CMS mana ọ gụchaghị akwụkwọ ya ọ nwetara ọrụ dị ka onye nche ụlọ mkpọrọ na gọọmentị Egba. Ọ hapụrụ ọnọdụ nche ya iji bido ọrụ ugbo na ide akwụkwọ. N'agbata 1905 na 1934, e bipụtara ọrụ iri na abụọ nke ọrụ ya, ụfọdụ site na ụlọ obibi akwụkwọ gọọmentị Egba ebe nwanne ya nwoke na-arụ ọrụ.[3]

Ọrụ Sowande gụnyere Orin Arunbe, abụ a na-akpọ Or.

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  1. Nnodim (2006). "Configuring Audiences in Yorùbá Novels, Print and Media Poetry". Research in African Literatures 37 (3): 154–156. ISSN 0034-5210. 
  2. Okùnoyè (2010). "Ewì, Yorùbá Modernity, and the Public Space". Research in African Literatures 41 (4): 43–64. DOI:10.2979/ral.2010.41.4.43. ISSN 0034-5210. 
  3. Babalola (1985). in Andrzejewski: Literatures in African languages : theoretical issues and sample surveys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 184–186. ISBN 0-521-25646-1. OCLC 10824164.