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Sociocultural perception of sexist Yorùbá proverbs and implications for peace and national cohesion

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natural language processing
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ADEJegAde
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Rou
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Literature as a mirror of society, no doubt, captures the evolution, growth, and development of a people in such a way that makes it safe to describe it as the definition of the people's existence. The mores, "dos and don'ts," taboos, failures, advancement, achievements, feats, and developmental milestones of the people are usually documented in their literature. Universally, therefore, literature tends to take its thematic preoccupations from the value system of the social context from which it emerges. (Adejumo, 2009). As such, literary

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Yoruba

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