A Dance of the Forests

A Dance of the Forests

 

Hello, I am Emisha Ravani, writing this blog as a task which is given by Yesha Ma'am for the unit of A Dance Of the Forest. 

Who is Wole Soyinka?

Wole Soyinka is a famous writer and political activist from Nigeria. He was born on July 13, 1934 in Abeokuta, Nigeria. He won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 for his writing. Soyinka often wrote about West Africa in a satirical way, but his writing also had a serious message about the problems with people in power.

He wrote several plays in a lighter vein, making fun of pompous, Westernized schoolteachers in The Lion and the Jewel (first performed in Ibadan, 1959; published 1963) and mocking the clever preachers of upstart prayer-churches who grow fat on the credulity of their parishioners in The Trials of Brother Jero (performed 1960; published 1963) and Jero’s Metamorphosis (1973). But his more serious plays, such as The Strong Breed (1963), Kongi’s Harvest (opened the first Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, 1966; published 1967), The Road (1965), From Zia, with Love (1992), and even the parody King Baabu (performed 2001; published 2002), reveal his disregard for African authoritarian leadership and his disillusionment with Nigerian society as a whole.

So, here the video which we made on the Introduction of the characters from A Dance of the Forest. 

Thank you!