A stylistic exploration of selected daddy lumba’s songs

The study considered selected Daddy Lumba’s songs as data for the analysis. He is a long-standing philosophical songwriter and artiste in Ghanaians’ highlife music. He used his environment and the situational happenings into didactic themes and enshrined them in the cultural ideologies of the Akan people of Ghana. Daddy Lumba strictly used Asante Twi in all his songs; he did not code mix or switch in all his 34 albums tagged to him, this is an indication of his festoon of cultural affiliation. The research used literary stylistic concepts to account for the style and the stylistic devices in the selected songs. The study adopted a qualitative and a descriptive method. The selected data were randomly sampled, to ascertain the peculiarity and the frequency of the style and the stylistic devices employed in them. The lyrics were downloaded from google and the videos were watched on YouTube. The songs were repeatedly listened to, which helped the researchers to examine the data. The findings revealed such literary devices as simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, euphemism, imagery, and symbolism. The study asserts that language is an important aspect of human endeavors, which is used in expressing cultural ideas. It informs that songs are aspect of language that is universally used in unveiling cultural models. The study concluded that songs have didactic information that can shape a society and recommended that scholars should give keen attention to its analysis as most times listeners may only depend on the melody rather than the lyrics, where the didactic meanings are deployed. Furthermore, linguists should give the utmost attention to songs that unveil cultural ideologies, as they are avenues of preserving culture.