Abstract:The historicity of any event resides in the truthfulness, depth and critical conception of it. Incidentally, these three qualities formed the constituent parts of the working tools of the poets/bards/griots in preindustrial societies; hence the confidence the society reposed in them. The modern African playwright presumably steps into the shoes of these traditional performers in terms of utility, inquisitiveness, information processing, critical perception of events and innovation. This article adopts the infl… Show more
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