The Lion and the Jewel By Wole Soyinka
AFRICAN DRAMA THE LION AND THE JEWEL BY WOLE SOYINKA CONTENT ANALYSIS PLOT The Lion and the Jewel is a dramatization of the conflict between modernism and as represented in Lakunle and traditionalism as depicted in Baroka, Sidi; a young beautiful village belle. Lakunle, a young teacher in the village Ilujunle, is in love with Sidi, the village queen who understands little of the modern world. She accepts the teacher’s love advances all the same and promises to be his wife the moment Lakunle pays the bride price as demanded by custom. He does not want a wife he would buy as one would do to a piece of furniture, but a companion in love and progress. He also talks of pulling down all the age-longed customs that weigh down on the womenfolk and creating activities that would bring up Ilujinle on the road of civilization. Sidi does not believe in Lakunle’s revolutionary idea, as she was stuck in the trado-my...
