Theme Quote ‘The most important human endeavour is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on
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Tewfik Al-Hakim’s Fate of a Cockroach is a farce that demonstrates the Theatre of the Absurd based on the existentialist philosophy which sees human life
Peter Abrahams’ Mine Boy was published in 1946, two years before the National Party returned to power and legally formalised the apartheid structures that were
Lysistrata is an eponymous play by the Greek playwright, Aristophanes (446-386 BC), best known for his comic plays such as The Birds, The Wasps and
Considered to be the first modern English novel, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe was first published in 1719, which effectively places it in the late modern
‘One green bottle hanging on the wall. . . and if one green bottle accidentally falls down, there’ll be no green bottle hanging on the
Charles Dickens’ Hard Times is written in late modern English. Late modern English is different from Renaissance or early modern English, which can be seen
Introduction: A Cameroonian writer and diplomat, Ferdinand Oyono lived between 1929 and 2010. He is best known for his first novel, Houseboy, originally written in
Introduction: Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen is a novel of identity, class and gender struggle first published in 1974. Its subject matter is the burden
Introduction: The Lion and the Jewel is a satirical piece of dramatic masterpiece crafted by the Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka. The comic play