Yorùbá folklore and mythical metaphors in Kunle Afolayan’s Citation

African films are often influenced by folklore and other cultural elements, including mythology, which is classified as a discrete historical and national storytelling pattern. Kunle Afolayan’s film Citation (2020) is one such film, embodying the supernatural, natural, spiritual and physical representations of Yorùbá folklorist mythology. This article examines the metaphor of the mythical figure, Mợremí Àjàṣorò, in this film, using the semiotic theory. It correlates the heroics of a mythical-cum-historical, legendary figure, Mợremí Àjàṣorò, with that of a fictional character, Mợremí Olùwá in this film, aiming to demonstrate the overlapping semblance between both. The study adopts qualitative research using the tool of content analysis to situate the metaphor apropos to the filmic text to establish the symbols of the Mợremí myth and unearth their signification in the film from the Yorùbá world-view.