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Efua Sutherland: The Marriage of Anansewa,The Wedlock of the gods By Zulu Sofola, The gods Are Not

an african night's entertainment by cyrian ekwensi

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AN AFRICAN NIGHT’S ENTERTAINMENT BY CYPRIAN EWENSI . CONTENT The Dream Mallam Sambo’s Prescription Zainobe is Lovesick A Cloth in the Market-Place A Marriage and a Birth The Quest for Vengeance Tausayi’s Father The One-Eared Thief The Retreating Forest The Forest of Death A Changed Man The Madness of Kyauta A Life of Crime The Hand that Fed Him The Law is fulfilled INTRODUCTION “Put your money on this sheepskin,” said the old man, and if, by the time I finish my tale, there is one of you awake, that man shall claim everything we have collected. Young men, old men, children, and women: they all put some money on the sheepskin beside the old story teller. He waited till they had sat down. He settled comfortably on the sofa and smiled.‘ It is a long tale of vengeance, adventure and love. We shall sit here until the moon pales and still it will not have been told. It is enough entertainment for a night: AN AFRICAN NIGHT’S ENTERTAINMENT Chapter One The Dream There was once a...
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wedLock of the gods By Zulu Sofola

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WEDLOCK OF THE GODS BY ZULU SOFOLU ANALYSIS BY EGURIASE S. M. OKAKA Ogwoma, the widow has been forced by her parents to marry Adigwu because they needed money from her bride wealth to cure their son who was very sick. Ogwoma the victim of circumstance had nothing but hatred for Adigwu. She was very much in love with Uloko whom she could not marry because he did not have the money his parents needed. Fortunately for her the loathed husband died and she considers herself freed from whatever bands them together. Rather than complete the period of mourning and be inherited by her husband’s brother in the tradition of levitation, she became pregnant by her lover who eternally holds her heart. Taboos are broken, her parental families are disgraced and her mother-in-law was filled with a sense of vengeance for her son who she believed was intentionally killed so that both lovers might have their way.   The play reveals Odibei searching seriously for the medicine Ogwoma used ...
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