After reading Wole Soyinka's critical article in the guardian dubbed, "Wole Soyinka attacks BBC portrayal of Lagos pit of degradation", my fundamental reaction continued to be the film was able to capture the harsh reality of typical Lagosians. ... Which according to the respected Nigerian who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Wole Soyinka, is the inherent problem. Consistent with Soyinka, "there was no sense of Lagos as what it is- a modern African state", he was also quoted within this article of the Guardian paper stating, "the worst aspect of colonialist a...

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Death and The King's Horseman took place in 1946, in the Nigerian City of Yourba (of Oya). In Nigeria, there were customs Nigerians used to live. They were accustomed to the way they lived and practiced their religions. At this time, the British were taking over many other countries and Nigeria w...

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Alu The story of The Swamp Dwellers, by Wole Soyinka, based in Nigeria focuses on the society working through change between the city and the country. ... (Soyinka 103) or " I"m going after him. ...

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