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Olunde Oba has just returned to his home in Nigeria, after studying medicine in England for the past four years. He has come in response to the news that their King has died; Olunde’s father, Elesin, was horseman to the King, and Olunde knows that the King’s death requires Elesin to commit suicide and follow his master to the afterlife. Though he defied his father and tradition by leaving home to become a doctor, Olunde is still deeply aware of his duties, and arrives in time to perform the
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START: Jane: Poor Simon . . . (A figure emerges from the shadows, a young black man dressed in a sober western suit. He peeps into the hall, trying to make out the figures of the dancers.)
Who is that?
Olunde: (Emerging into the light) I didn’t mean to startle you madam. I was looking for the District Officer.
Jane: Wait a minute . . . don’t I know you? Yes, you are Olunde, the young man who . . .
[... ... ...]
END: Jane: You mean he’s . . .
Olunde: Yes Mrs. Pilkings, my father is dead. His will-power has always been enormous; I know he is dead.
Jane: (Screams) How can you be so callous! So unfeeling! You announce your father’s own death like a surgeon looking down on some strange . . . stranger’s body! You’re just a savage like all the rest.
For full scene please see Soyinka, Wole, Death and the King’s Horseman, Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1975, pp. 49-55.
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