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This 10 page paper discusses the plays The Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka and Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again by Ola Rotimi. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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upheavals, political takeovers, the rise and fall of military strongmen, the rise and fall of dictators, and a state of uncertainty that seemed at one point to threaten the stability
of the entire world. But out of this chaos have come some of the most intriguing theatrical works ever written. Perhaps it couldnt happen any another way.
This paper discusses the plays The Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka and Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again by Ola Rotimi. Wole Soyinka Wole Soyinka has
been described as "Africas most distinguished playwright" and in 1986 became the first African to win the Nobel Prize for literature (Wole Soyinka, 2005). He was "born in
Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1934 ... received a primary school education in Abeokuta and secondary school at Government College, Ibadan [then]studied at the University College, Ibadan (1952-1954) and the University of
Leeds (1954-1957) from which he received an honours degree in English Literature (Wole Soyinka, 2005). He found work as a play reader in London at the Royal Court Theatre but
returned to Nigeria to "study Africa drama" (Wole Soyinka, 2005). He taught in several universities in Nigeria before winning the Nobel Prize (Wole Soyinka, 2005). He has been active
Nigerian politics and spent 22 months in prison for trying to broker a peace during the Nigerian Civil War (Wole Soyinka, 2005). He has been "an outspoken critic of
many Nigerian administrations and of political tyrannies worldwide, including the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe" (Wole Soyinka, 2005). His criticism of various political regimes has put him at risk, and
he left Nigeria for the relative safety of the United States during the period 1993-1998, when General Sani Abacha was dictator of Nigeria; he returned to his country in 1999
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