Nigeria’s famed playwright, Femi Osofisan evidently commits his literary nuances to social change. Marxism thrives on revolution as an instrument of social change. Therefore, literary critics ...

Scholars and critics always interpret change in Osofisan’s plays from a theoretical perspective, thus paying less attention to the roles played by characters as the immediate vehicles of that change. Characters ...

Suicide is the wilful, abrupt termination of one’s life by oneself. While some people understand it as a negative, depressive phenomenon which requires pity, other people view suicide victims as cowards. Yet many ...

Wole Soyinka’s play, Death and The King’s Horseman, occupies a pride of place in Africa’s literary provenance given its inevitable imbrication of multiple humanistic and artistic categories such as history, clash of cultures ...

Literary studies are replete with multiple exegeses of tragedy where its various notions and rubrics are expounded. However , interpr etation has posed a problem. While most critics align with the Shakespearean ...

Scholars and critics around the world interpret Femi Osofisan’s literary oeuvre from different perspectives. Beyond aesthetics, his dramaturgy offers multiple vistas for a critical appraisal of society. Given ...