Wole Soyinka
The Impact of Resistance on Religion and Politics in the Play Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka
... by Wole Soyinka ...Here, Soyinka highlights the issues of the fundamental forces of African politics, betrayal, victimization and resistance in his chosen ...
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Social Functions Of Ritual Suicide In Wole Soyinka’s Death And The King’s Horseman And The Strong Breed
... The Yoruba tribe of the South-Western part of Nigeria, is a tribe nourished and highly blessed in culture and tradition. Her ritual standard is very vast and balance. This study revolves around the Yoruba ritual culture ...
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A Socio-pragmatic Study of Characters’ Names in Wole Soyinka’s The Strong Breed
... of Wole Soyinka’s The Strong Breed from a socio-pragmatic ...(by Soyinka) transcends the illocutionary act of labeling to bring into play the social indices of occupation, age, geography, ethnicity and ...
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Cultural Conflict between Tradition versus Modernism in Wole Soyinka’s Play The Lion and the Jewel
... Wole Soyinka is most distinguished playwright winning theNobelPrize for literature in 1986. Being a social conscious writer, he is acclaimed worldwide, yet his home country rewarded him with solitary ...
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DANCE OF INTRIGUE: A SEMIOTIC READING OF WOLE SOYINKA’S KONGI’S HARVEST
... until Wole Soyinka stormed the dramatic stage with his iconoclastic play, Death and the King’s ...which Soyinka borrows his style utilizes dance as a predominant ...which Soyinka employs as he ...
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A Relevance Theoretical Reading of Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel
... of Wole Soyinka’s Play The Lion and the Jewel in the Light of Cul- tures in ...that Soyinka manages to reflect to the world that the dominated culture is the traditional one besides reflecting the view of ...
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Western Cultural Beliefs in Wole Soyinka’s Death and King’s Horseman
... Earth,51). Wole Soyinka’s best plays, Death and King’s Horsemen tells the story of Elesin, the king’s horseman, who is expected to commit ritual suicide following the death of the king, but who is prevented from ...
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A Neocolonial Study of Hybridity and Identity in Wole Soyinka's the Interpreters
... We should not ignore the fact that colonialism and imperialism are often used interchangeably, and it can therefore be concluded that modern colonialism is a sort of capitalism. Realizing this helps us to understand that ...
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The reckless broom and virgin plots of lives: Change and traditional Nigerian society in Wole Soyinka's drama.
... Wright, Handel Kashope, "The reckless broom and virgin plots of lives: Change and traditional Nigerian society in Wole Soyinka's drama." (1987).. Electronic Theses and Dissertat[r] ...
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Comedy As A Way Of Correcting The Ills Of Society: A Critical Reading Of Wole Soyinka's The Trials Of Brother Jero And Harold Pinter's The Caretaker
... Jero, Soyinka uses a combination of dramatic techniques to create broad ...play, Soyinka still manages to expose the ills of his society and to criticise ...entitled Wole Soyinka: Critical ...
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PROBING LUST AS BANE OF NIGERIA’S POLITICAL LEADERSHIP: A STUDY OF WOLE SOYINKA’S DEATH AND THE KING’S HORSEMAN AND OLA ROTIMI’S THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME
... 61 The literature review on leadership problems as portrayed in literature suggests the problem of leadership in African societies are triggered by greed, selfishness, insecurity, ignorance and unemployment. For ...
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Representation of Individual Will as the Agent of Social Transformation in Wole Soyinka’s Novels
... Though The Interpreters precedes Season of Anomy, the latter appears more explicit in its handling of social issues. The portrait that is evident in Season of Anomy is not, however, any different from the first novel. ...
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“What African Literature is in the Complexity of The Interpreters (Wole Soyinka)? Is there any way our Biased Ugandan Readership could be Re-educated to Like its Style and Appreciate its Message?”
... of Soyinka as critics convinced that some “…contemporary writers…are writing more to please their Western audiences and publish- ers rather than their own African people they write about (thereby pushing for) the ...
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The Quest for Happiness in Wole Soyinka’s The Trials of Brother Jero
... Chume blindly follows Jero. He clearly has no understanding of religion or God. Mireku (2013) argues that, ―Despite the triviality and meanness of what is prophesied as prosperity for him, we find Chume trusting in the ...
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STATE OF TOWN AND GOWN IN NIGERIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM WITH EMPHASIS ON INDUSTRIAL ARTS AND DESIGN (1975 – 2012) WOLE LATEEF AKINTAYO and BANJO, ABIODUN
... Through well planned and executed entrepreneurship education, Nigerian graduates in Industrial Arts design shall be self employed, relevant to the labour market and socie[r] ...
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