Transculturalism and Culinary Fiesta in Adeola Osunkojo’s The Life of a Nigerian Couple

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dc.contributor.authorOgunmekan Damilare
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-28T09:15:27Z
dc.date.available2025-05-28T09:15:27Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractWhen the Canadian Professor, public intellectual and philosopher, Herbert Marshall McLuhan, prophesied that “the world is fast becoming a global village”, man did not realise how fast this would be. Multiculturalism, Interculturalism, Transculturalism, Technological advancement and other socio-cultural processes and innovations have made this possible. In Nigeria, the multiplicity of cultures has culminated into an influx of traditional values, and norms. These norms and values include the culinary traditions. The culinary tradition is an aesthetic experience that is pleasing to the senses and also in the transnational space. Transculturality stems from the convergence of various cultures. It is not a rarity to witness a marriage of foods from different cultural backgrounds. Varieties of foods are fully captured in culinary fiestas in ceremonies such as weddings, burials, birthday parties, among others. The Amiedi, Owho-evwri, and Usi of the Urhobo people of the Niger Delta, the Amala, Ewedu and Gbegiri of the Yoruba people, and the Tuwo Shinkafa in Northern Nigeria do not only portray the multiplicity of foods in Nigeria, they also mirror the complex nature of determining one’s taste, especially in homes where couples are from different cultural backgrounds. Consequently, this paper advocates transculturality in the Nigerian culinary traditions. It uses content analysis methodological investigative approach to examine polemic(s) of preference of food among couples in Adeola Osunkojo’s short film, The Life of a Nigerian Couple. The paper is anchored upon Fernando Ortiz’s 1947 theory of Transculturalism, the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures. This research reveals that food is an art and as such can only be evaluated within the context of the culture from which it emanates. We conclude that the advocacy for a transcultural Nigerian society will not only facilitate peaceful coexistence, it will also serve as machinery that would improve culinary processes in Nigeria and beyond.
dc.identifier.citation• Okpadah, Stephenand Ogunmekan, Damilare. Transculturalism and Culinary Fiesta in Adeola Osunkojo’s The Life of a Nigerian Couple. postScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies. Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 166 - 175 (July 2019) Special Issue on Transnational and Transcultural Spaces. http://postscriptum.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/pS4.iiStephen.pdf
dc.identifier.issn2456-7507
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.run.edu.ng/handle/123456789/4852
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherpostScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies
dc.relation.ispartofseriesvol. 4; No. 2
dc.titleTransculturalism and Culinary Fiesta in Adeola Osunkojo’s The Life of a Nigerian Couple
dc.typeArticle
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