2010
DOI: 10.1080/17449850903478171
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“No Danger No Delay”: Wole Soyinka and the perils of the road

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“…Crossroads and the multiple forces that conflate at them play an important role in the cosmological work across West Africa. Euba (1996) and Achebe (1975), for instance, depict the ambivalent powers of crossroads as they bring into prominence cosmological and historical features (see also Green-Simms 2010;Bakhtin 1981). In a similar vein, Bakare-Yusuf and Weate (2005), Aiyejina (2009) and Stoller (2002) explore the unsettling powers of crossroads as the ultimate meeting point of tricksters, spirits, deities and other transmogrifying figures who stand for the potentiality of both prosperity and destruction.…”
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“…Crossroads and the multiple forces that conflate at them play an important role in the cosmological work across West Africa. Euba (1996) and Achebe (1975), for instance, depict the ambivalent powers of crossroads as they bring into prominence cosmological and historical features (see also Green-Simms 2010;Bakhtin 1981). In a similar vein, Bakare-Yusuf and Weate (2005), Aiyejina (2009) and Stoller (2002) explore the unsettling powers of crossroads as the ultimate meeting point of tricksters, spirits, deities and other transmogrifying figures who stand for the potentiality of both prosperity and destruction.…”
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confidence: 99%