English Literature / Unit 18 ENL 1705 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Wole Soyinka
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The idea
Wole Soyinka, born in nineteen thirty-four into a Yoruba family, is a Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist who won the Nobel Prize in nineteen eighty-six. His play Death and the King's Horseman is based on a real colonial incident in which a king's horseman was prevented from ritual suicide.
In practice
Yoruba ritual, colonial intervention.
Where people slip
Facts only for living authors.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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