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The throne of the ghost / a play by Modoulamin Age-Almusaf Sowe.
Van Pelt Library PR9378.9.S69 T45 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sowe, Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kings and rulers--Succession--Drama.
- Kings and rulers.
- Kings and rulers--Succession.
- African literature.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 100 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- New edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Surulere, Lagos, Lagos State : Malthouse Press Limited, 2016.
- Summary:
- In four hundred and eighty moons ago or thereabout, when Africa was a huge farmland, there lived a king in a place known today as Niamina Dankunku, who was endowed with dignity as a result of his wisdom and unquestionable character and well known within the Senegambia, Guinea and Mali region. He had two wives and six children, his first son Ishaq was to succeed him upon his death, but Sheriff, his second son, and his mother Awa, led Ishaq astray and planned to kill him. Maimuna, the Jinn who loves Ishaq, was afraid to tell him. But Mariama, a friend of Maimuna, also a Jinn, stepped into their relationship and made things more difficult for Maimuna - Provided by the publisher
- This play details succession strife between sons and mothers in an African kingdom.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Scene One
- 2. Scene Two
- 3. Scene Three
- 4. Scene Four
- 5. Scene Five
- 6. Scene Six
- 7. Scene Seven
- 8. Scene Eight
- 9. Scene Nine
- 10. Scene Ten
- 11. Scene Eleven
- 12. Scene Twelve
- 13. Scene Thirteen
- 14. Scene Fourteen
- 15. Scene Fifteen
- 16. Scene Sixteen
- 17. Scene Seventeen
- 18. Scene Eighteen
- 19. Scene Nineteen
- 20. Scene Twenty
- 21. Scene Twenty-one
- 22. Scene Twenty-two.
- ISBN:
- 9789789497133
- 978949713X
- OCLC:
- 946463585
- Publisher Number:
- 99989206606
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