WOLE SOYINKA'S KONGI'S HARVEST: A POLITICAL SATIRE
ABSTRACT Wole Soyinka (Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka 1934-) is the most prolific and the Africa’s best known dramatist and one of its most illustrious personalities. He is the first black African writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. He deserves special consideration for making the efforts to revive the Nigerian Theatre much on the same lines as Yeats and Synge did for the revival of the Irish theatre at the beginning of the 20 th century. His plays, ranging from comedy to tragedy and from political satire to the theatre of the absurd, unfold one after another, involving religion, traditionalism, myth, politics, education, economics, social taboos and so on.In the present paper a study is made on Wole Soyinka’s Kongi’s Harvest . It is a satire on the contemporary political scene prevailing at that time, attacking directly the politicians who have shaped the present direction of modern Africa. It cleverly portrays both the traditional rulers and the new political leaders.