The Socio-Religious Significance of Edi songs in controlling Marital infidelity in Origbo Meje, Osun State , Nigeria
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2018
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Global Journal of Humanities-Social Sciences
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From the time immemorial, marital infidelity has
seriously impacted on the sustainability of family structure and
peaceful co-existence among families in Yoruba land in
particular and Nigeria in general. Since family is considered as
the basic unit of the society and whatever happens at the
family level has a favourable or an adverse effect on the
society. Therefore, a morally strong family setting is a morally
strong society. Existing studies on marital infidelity, its
attendant consequences and control have to a large extent
been restricted to legal, dramatic, literary and modern conflict
resolution methods with little reference to the use of Edì
festival song as an important method of controlling this
deviant behaviour in traditional marriage institution in the entire
discourse. Some of the methods of controlling deviant
behaviour mentioned above are geared towards using various
contemporary approaches to address issue of marital infidelity
associated with traditional marriage institution in the society.
The methods employed in carrying out this research are the
interview and the Focus Group Discussion. Our findings
revealed how those with deviant behaviour of marital infidelity
were exposed and dealt with in songs laced with satire. While
some fled the communities out of shame, others were made to
pay fine and promised not to commit such anti-social act
again. Recommendations will be offered on the need for
stakeholders in traditional marriage institution to be alert to
their responsibilities and how such festival songs can be
incorporated into the modern methods of controlling marital
infidelity in order to enhance a morally stable family structure
which will translate to a peaceful and a crime free society.
Keywords: religious significance, edi festival song,
marital infidelity, traditional marriage institution, orígbó
meje
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Oke Olusegun Peter
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