Death and the King’s Horseman

Wole Soyinka, Jane Plastow (Editor), Wole Soyinda

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Elesin Oba, the King’s Horseman, has a single destiny. When the King dies, he must commit ritual suicide and lead his King’s favorite horse and dog through the passage to the world of the ancestors. A British colonial officer, Pilkings, intervenes.