Exile in Africa: The Fall of Humanity As Characterized in Anowa, Death and the King’s Horseman, and The Other War

Abstract

Anowa, at first, uncovers a grim sketch of Kofi Ako’s whole youth spent on scoring slaves resulting in consuming his sexual puberty; and bringing him to his ultimate suicide. Secondly, Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman observes a deep political unrest regarding Elisin’s slavery branding Elisin as a slave. Although the ending remarks his master dies but Elisin’s slavery does not end; he has to serve his master following him into the grave unfortunately. Soyinka evokes the fears of slavery politicized in the Yoruba society that kills Elisin eventually. Finally, Tesfai particularizes an action-research project of a prolonged conflict between Assefa, an Ethiopian and Astier’s mother, an Eritrean symbolizing the two states’ problems as a whole. Findings suggest Assefa’s chronic distresses are vividly marked by the loss of his son, whom Astier’s mother takes away to help clarify the emerging war in both countries, where war will stop in no time.