This author heard "voices of our dead" when a stringy substance touched his face in one poem, while in another he exalted coral as a "grim, historic flower."
This author heard "voices of our dead" when a stringy substance touched his face in one poem, while in another he exalted coral as a "grim, historic flower." Those poems, "A Cobweb's Touch in the Dark" and "Flowers for my Homeland," are by this author whose later works include an adaptation of the Threepenny Opera that sees a cannibal crowned king. The healer Si Bero and her assistant Blindman serves a foil to her overtly political brother in one of his works, while the title character's conflict with the Oba Danlola is the main issue another. He wrote a work in which the tale of the not-I bird reveals Elesin's fear of death, and in which Simon Pilkings blasphemes tribal death masks. For 10 points, name this playwright who wrote Madmen and Specialists and Kongi's Harvest, in addition to The Lion and the Jewel and Death and the King's Horsemen.
This author heard "voices of our dead" when a stringy substance touched his face in one poem, while in another he exalted coral as a "grim, historic flower."
Wole {Soyinka}