A CRITICAL LITERATURE REVIEW OF THE PLAY-the lion and the jewel by wole soyinka This creative effability by konji himself touched on the conflict between two traditions:lankunle (the western civilization) and Bale Baroka the lion (the African tradition) while Sidi the jewel is the perimetre for determing between these two values,which always triumph in Nigeria millieu...even with all the book in the world Lankunle was seen as a clown,dreamer,poor fellow and a never do well...in Africa,a man is sized by the woman by his material opprobrium..imagine Sadiku, Barokas elderst wife taunting Lankunle to give her some few coins..this goes to tell you the playwrights mind-eye in the dramatic masterpiece.At the end who eventually conquered?This irridescent compass zooms through ethnicity to tribes then typical Nigeria belief system that what makes a man is wisdom and knowledge with a leaking pocket to show for it. But rather a heavy pocket,masculiness,power,fame,trickery and the fishes (women) will keep coming. dont you how much power he has given me This was the statement by Sidi to Lankunle after she was trapped in Barokas bed and ravaged...an african maidens belief...the man who disvirgins me..marries me The literary piece is something to be read with a grain of objectivism to decipher the growing clamour of a cosmopolitan man of enlish flaire and his own traditional root.
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