Death and the King's Horseman | Essential Passages by Theme: Duty

Essential Passage 1: Act 2

AMUSA:
The government say dat kin’ ting must stop.

WOMAN:
Who will stop it? You? Tonight our husband and father will prove himself greater than the laws of strangers.

AMUSA:
I tell you nobody go prove anyting tonight or anytime. Is ignorant and criminal to prove dat kin’ prove.

IYALOJA:
[entering from hut. she is accompanied by a group of YOUNG GIRLS who have been attending the...









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