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The Lion and the Jewel is a play by Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka that was first performed in 1959 in Ibadan. In 1966, it was staged in London at the Royal Court Theatre. The play chronicles how Baroka, the lion, fights with the modern Lakunle over the right to marry Sidi, the titular Jewel. Lakunle is portrayed as the civilized antithesis of Baroka and unilaterally attempts to modernize his community and change its social conventions for no reason other than the fact that he can. The transcript of the play was first published in 1962 by Oxford University Press. Soyinka emphasises the theme of the corrupted African culture through the play, as well as how the youth should embrace the original African culture.
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- Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel dramatizes the conflict between tradition and modernization in a small Nigerian village as two men compete for the love of a beautiful woman.
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Sidi, the titular "jewel," is courted by two different men: Lakunle, a young schoolteacher who embraces western ideals, and elderly Baroka, the old-fashioned village chief.
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Sidi at first rejects both men: Lakunle for refusing to pay her bride-price, and Baroka because of his advanced age.
- Baroka ultimately wins Sidi's hand in marriage. Sidi rejects Lakunle's empty westernized rhetoric in favor of Baroka's liveliness, wit, and experience as a lover.
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- SKU: JU704BM14O5F5NAFAMZ
- Product Line: Klick Educational Resources
- Weight (kg): 0.2
- Color: Blue and gold
- Main Material: Paper and Card
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