Wole Soyinka: Artist as a Social Activist
In Nigeria, Yoruba population theatre groups have always served as the most forthrightrepresentation of anti-establishment campaign. Given the nature of social and political contextfrom which Wole Soyinka’s drama emerges, there is in it a similar acceptance of drama as a vitalmeasure of socio-political indictment. Soyinka is acutely sensitive to the changes in Nigerian political-situation, especially…