![]() It is also set when Africa and its culture is seen by few modernized Africans as primitive, barbaric and uncivilized. It is set when Africans believe in polygamy as seen in Baroka the Lion. Sidi like lakunle and his modernity but prefers Baroka the old and experienced in the culture the people and who can pay her bride price unlike Lakunle who prefers marrying her without bride price payment. Socially,it is set when there is partial acceptance of modernity and all that come with it. ![]() The time frame of the drama is morning, noon and night. Physically, it is set at the village centre, where the school headed by Lakunle is located, at a road by the village market, behind the Odan tree, Baroka’s bedroom, at the market where night trading is taking place in the village of Ilunjinle. It is set in Nigeria geographically especially in the Yoruba village called Ilunjinle. He received noble prize for literature in 1986. He wrote three short plays:The trial of Brother Jero, Jero’s metamorphosis, You Must Set Forth At Dawn etc. He wrote other books like A Dance of the forests, The Road, Kongi’s Harvest. ![]() ![]() Identify the writer of The Lion and the Jewel. TOPIC – Background of the playwright, Wole Soyinka, setting of The Lion and the Jewel and plot of the drama book.īy the end of the lesson, the students should be able to: ![]()
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