The Ozidi Saga
- Date of account
- Oral tradition recorded in the 1960s; published 1970s
- Location
- Ijo communities, Niger Delta, Nigeria
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Ozidi Saga is a major Ijo oral performance concerning Ozidi, a culture hero and warrior whose story involves murder, succession, transformation, revenge, and supernatural helpers. Isolated in recordings and transcription by scholars including Isidore Okpewho, it provides a rich case for comparing epic performance, ritual context, political memory, and the relationship between human and other-than-human actors. The saga is not an ancient written chronicle; its known form comes through modern field recording and translation, with performance-specific variation and editorial decisions affecting the text.
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