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Death and the King's Horseman

Wole Soyinka

Form
Form Play
Year
Year 1975
Pages
Pages 60

A Yoruba king has died, and his horseman must follow him by ritual suicide; a colonial officer intervenes to save him, and the rescue is the catastrophe.

You did not save my life District Officer. You destroyed it.
Death and the King's Horseman, Wole Soyinka

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