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Death and the King's Horseman

by Wole Soyinka

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A play about a ritual duty and a colonial officer's interference in Oyo in the 1940s.

NigerianAfricanDramaColonialismFaithMyth

  • First published 1975
  • Length Short (a weekend)
  • Language English

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