Performance: Mayowa Adeyemo +2348039220116 Videography: Aaron Carter-Ényì Translation: Mayowa Adeyemo Captioning: Aaron Carter-Ényì Interviewer: David Aina Description: Aaron Carter-Ényì In this video, Mayowa Adeyemo praises Eledumare (Yoruba for Creator) at Peter King College of Music on July 26, 2013. She was then a music student at Lagos State University in Ojo along Badagry Expressway in Nigeria. In an accompanying interview, she explained that she "freestyles" when praising Eledumare because she is a Christian, and Eledumare (Creator) is now used to refer to the Christian god. This is similar to the practice of Yoruba gospel singers such as Tope Alabi who were active at the time of this recording and incorporated oriki into their recorded hits (such as "Mimo Oluwa" - Holy is the Lord). In his book "Olodumare" (an alternative pronunciation and spelling of Eledumare), Nigerian Methodist leader E. Bolaji Idowu wrote a book arguing that Yoruba people were always monotheistic and had acknowledged a single supreme being (Eledumare/Olodumare, the Creator). However, others have pointed that there were no shrines to Eledumare/Olodumare in Yoruba land and that the conflation of the Yoruba concept of creator (Eledumare/Olodumare) and the monotheistic Abrahamic God (found in both Christianity and Islam) is a result of Muslim, and later Christian, proselytization. Given this context, and that the performer identified as a Christian, this performance reflects an evolving and growing inventory of praise epithets (see Karin Barber 1991) as opposed to a fixed rendition. To see an example of oriki largely fixed within the oral tradition, view the video "Oriki Ogun" by Mayowa Adeyemo (https://youtu.be/-pvTKPRfbHk).