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Wole Soyinka · 1975
A play based on 1946 events in Oyo, Nigeria, exploring the metaphysical confrontation between Elesin, a Yoruba king's horseman, and the colonial administration, centered on themes of transition, duty, and the clash between indigenous spiritual worlds and colonial intervention.
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When colonial power interrupts a man's sacred death-duty, it destroys not one life but the cosmic order an entire people inhabits.
mortality
My rein is loosened. I am master of my Fate. When the hour comes / Watch me dance along the narrowing path.
DKH-RC-008He who must, must voyage forth / The world will not roll backwards / It is he who must, with one / Great gesture overtake the world.
DKH-RC-011obedience-and-authority
You did not save my life District Officer. You destroyed it. And not merely my life but the lives of many.
DKH-RC-055What can you offer him in place of his peace of mind, in place of the honour and veneration of his own people?
DKH-RC-046shame
Give me back the name you have taken away from me you ghost from the land of the nameless!
DKH-RC-053Oh you emptied bark that the world once saluted for a pith-laden being, shall I tell you what the world sees?
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