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02067aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 E2259F0C957111E48BB50097DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150106010110 008 140813s2014 sa b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1920287612 (paperback) 020 $a 9781920287610 (paperback) 035 $a (OCoLC)886746885 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d MNF $d SILO 043 $a f------ 050 14 $a PR9387.9.S6 $b Z575 2014 100 1 $a Blackings, Mairi John. 245 04 $a The big men of Africa : $b anomie of African leadership in Wole Soyinka's plays / $c Mairi J. Blackings. 260 $a Cape Town : $b Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS), $c 2014. 300 $a xi, 186 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a CASAS book series ; $v no. 104 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The state of African leadership -- The African writer, the African politician and African literature -- Universalism of tyranny: Soyinka's adapted plays -- The myth of the glorious past: tyrannical traditional leaders -- Language as a tool of control: authoritarian modern leaders -- Fraudsters and tricksters as religious leaders -- Redemptive death, communal-and self-reintegration. 520 $a "This book, The Big Men of Africa, examines the antics of these leaders who, long after the curtain has come down on their often poorly scripted and performed political theatres, refuse to exit the stage. Often referred to as the Big Men of Africa-- for all of them are men-- these leaders represent and are symbolic of much that has gone wrong with the continent..."--page 169. 600 10 $a Soyinka, Wole $x Political and social views. 600 10 $a Soyinka, Wole $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Political leadership $z Africa. 651 0 $a Africa $x Social conditions $y 1960- 651 0 $a Africa $x Economic conditions $y 1960- 830 0 $a CASAS book series ; $v no. 104. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180131061947.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E2259F0C957111E48BB50097DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search