The text "Yemoja" by Popular Nigerian playwright Ahmed Yerima is a play text that depicts the Yorùbá River goddess Yemoja as well as other Yorùbá gods in human form possessing human traits. In the play, these gods are susceptible to human emotions l…
Continue ReadingSynopsis of the play The black Hermit is a post-colonial drama, written at the dawn of independence in Kenya to douse the fire of ethnic agitation and religious conflict which had begun to undermine the cooperative existence of the young East African Repub…
Continue ReadingTough Man treats the theme of patriotism, integrity, honesty, ethics and selflessness, probity, and responsible leadership in Igala Kingdom. In this play the truth about the past is being made to guide ethical conduct in the present and in the future. The p…
Continue ReadingThe novel Faceless is an African novel of Ghanaian extraction, which is fictionally set in the city of Sodom and Gomorrah, an allusion to the biblical city of Sodom and Gomorrah , which are replete with social, political, and moral decadence as personifie…
Continue ReadingEven though the play Wedlock of the Gods ends on a tragic note, it was tasked to delineate the tragic hero in the play; bearing in mind that both Ogwoma and Uloko are common folk whose lives for me are not worthy of a tragedy as well as their goals , viewing …
Continue ReadingWedlock of the gods The “ Wedlock of the gods” is compared with Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” The prologue of the play tells us that Uloko and Ogwoma (male and female) protagonists are lovers from an early age and they agree to marry themselves and thus s…
Continue ReadingTough Man treats the theme of patriotism, integrity, honesty, ethics and selflessness, probity, and responsible leadership in the Igala Kingdom. In this play, the truth about the past is being made to guide ethical conduct in the present and in the future. …
Continue ReadingThe trials of Oba Ovoranwem The Benin Empire up until 1897 was perhaps the largest and most popular Empire in the coastal area of present-day Nigeria. The empire is famous for its famous artefacts of bronze and ivory carvings which were not just artistic pie…
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