Wole Soyinka’s Death and the Kings Horseman
Prior to the European invasion in Africa, Africans had varied ways of life under their cultural setting. Some communities had formalised types of governments which were being ruled by kings while other communities had no centralised government. They practiced their own religion and had their own economic structures which comprised of skilled artists who could make masks sculptures, statutes of wood, bronze and gold, hunters and gatherers and also farmers. However, during colonisation, the African people’s way of life was subjected to numerous external changes that left traces in how we nowadays think and act. The imposition of ...
