The Swamp Dwellers: Tragic Flaw Of Igwezu
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The play, “The Swamp Dwellers”, written by Wole Soyinke, highlighted the story of an African man caught between two opposing worlds. On one hand, Igwezu grew in a culture that had a set way of doing things. Yet on the other hand, there were more opportunities to be held in the city. If Igwez ....
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.... was never to be questioned or disobeyed. For generations the townsfolk gave of their harvest to the Kadiye so he could appease the serpent. “Igwezu: And ever since I began to till the soil, did I not give the soil his due? Did I not bring the first oil upon the altar?” No one questioned where the goods went, because it was almost blasphemous to do so. “Makuri: I must go after him [Kadiye] or he’ll stir up the village against us. This is you home, Igwezu, and I would not drive ....
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