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Poetry & Drama · First published 1975

Death and the King's Horseman

by Wole SoyinkaNigeria

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Wole Soyinka's play, based on events in Ọ̀yọ́ in 1946: the king's horseman prepares for a ritual death that a British colonial officer intends to stop.

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