Interpreters: Ritual, Violence, and

A concern for social regeneration stands as the factor that animates Soyinka,s life-long involvement in social and political activism, leading to hid incarceration for two years during the civil war, and his having to flee into exile during the period of Sani Abacha,s dictatorship. Soyinka expresses this same concern for social regeneration in his writings, using difference metaphors. The focus of...