Nigerian playwright, Wole Soyinka, published Death and the King’s Horseman in 1975, at a time when Nigeria’s military dictatorship was at its most critical. The times were marked by multiple coups that sprang from intermittent points in time. Added to this turbulent period was the Biafran War, or the Nigerian Civil War, that horribly marred the young nation. Soyinka’s work bears the markings of these political events. He saw it fit to raise the cause of what it meant for people to live and even die under such conditions. Soyinka was a member of that unique group of African writers and intellectuals that rose to prominence in the dying days of colonialism. He, like his peers at the time, witnessed the promises of independence and lived through the failure of those promises. In Death and the King’s Horseman Soyinka captures this reality in a subversive tone that explodes with beauty and meaning.
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