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    Engaging Rhetoric and Dialogue with History in Socio-political Climate of Night of a Mystical Beast by Olu Obafemi
    (National Theatre, IGanmu, Lagos, Alpha Crown Publishing Lt., United Kingdom, and the University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria, 2022) Michael Olanrewaju Agboola, PhD
    This chapter examines the long-standing political rhetoric that has bred a lot of mistrust between the leaders and the led in Africa. The chapter considers the various historical markers - slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism, post-colonialism and globalisation- that have often been fingered by political leaders as hurdles in the way of good governance, but on critical consideration are mere excuses for leadership failure. It focuses, in particular, on Nigerian political leaders with their legacy of oratorial powers and false promises to their citizens. the scenario is explicated through Olu Obafemi's Night of Mystical Beast, using social psychological theory. It, therefore, seeks to emphasise the rhetoric of truth, rather than lie, by encouraging citizens to join forces and "wage war" against the Agurumos, who for their selfish political end pretend to be who they are not, at the expense of the nation.
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    Post-colonial Literature and Linguistic Identity in Two Nigerian Plays
    (The National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos, Nigeria, 2023) Michael Olanrewaju Agboola, PhD
    Colonialism may have been over for many African countries, including Nigeria, but its relics remain seemingly unassailable. The deprivations suffered by the colonised societies as a result of the relegation of the indigenous languages and the efforts of post-colonial creative writers to reassert African nativism gave birth to what many refer to as postcolonial literature. This paper examined the tropes of postcolonialism and linguistic identity in Emmy Idegu's Ata Igala the Great and Irene Salami-Agunloye's Idia, the Warrior Queen of Benin. It used the instrumentation of content analysis as methodological premise for primary data. The arguments presented in the study were anchored on postcolonial theory. The paper found out that African post-colonial creative writing is in the process of evolving a unique for itself, through choices of appropriation and abrogation, which comprised deployment of traditional linguistic canons in form of coined concepts, myth-making, proverbs, riddles and songs rendered in the indigenous languages. The paper concluded that overall, Idegu and Salami-Agunloye's works strive to deprive the “standard” English language of its supposed hegemony and stamps their plays with the identity of Africanness. This practice is recommended for more African playwrights.