Mulkin Matasa / [by Iyorwuese Hagher].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hagher, Iyorwuese H. (Iyorwuese Harry), author.

Series:

Black Drama, Third Edition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutions--Nigeria.

Revolutions.

Nigerian drama.

Nigeria--Politics and government--Drama.

Nigeria.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (49 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Privately published, 2014.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

Mulkin Matasa does not literary document the carnage and pogrom that took place on 14th February 2011, when the Fulani nomads invaded a Tiv farming community in Benue State of Nigeria and killed the innocents. Rather the play sets out to examine the inter play of the psychosis of deprivation and depravity. We live in a pernicious world where the ordinary has become the bizarre and grotesque. It is a dramatic world that has benumbed drama. In much of contemporary Africa, rich in natural resources, there are conflicts. These conflicts escalate because there is a new scramble for resources in a tripartite battlefield between the indigenous people, the national elite in power and the most advanced nations of the world. These advanced nations flood these vulnerable communities with weapons of annihilation. Communal conflicts in Africa are no longer resolved by elders meetings, nor by a Government at the centre equipped with the skills of governance to stem the carnage. The play is therefore an attempt to situate the unrelenting pogroms against the innocent, in the political space dominated by crooks and bandits, who have elevated banditry to statecraft and whose extremities are more bizarre and dramatic than the theatre can cope.

Notes:

Title from caption (viewed August 11, 2022).

Characters: Newscasters, Prof. Himna, Commander Kwamande, Ex-president Ningim Ningima, Ex-first lady Amaka Ningima, Tor Chembe, Ardo Danjuma, Court clerk, Singlefoot, Hassana Diakite, Prof. Ndu, Dancers.

OCLC:

1316659587