Corruption In Africa: Fifteen Plays

by Iyorwuese Hagher

Overview

The book is a collection of fifteen plays written by Prof. Iyorwuese Hagher, Africa’s most politically exposed playwright. This rare collection offers a penetrating insight of corruption and politics in Africa well as the global injustices that plagued the world in the last quarter of the 20th century and in contemporary times. Hagher’s unique narrative style is richly inspired by his academic career as Professor of theater and drama and his practical work as actor and director as well as his engagement with the traditional Tiv Kwagh-hir theater. Hagher is master of satire, humor and unending endings. The plays are masterpieces of Hagher’s workshop experiences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761869375
Publisher:	Hamilton Books
Publication date:	08/28/2017
Pages:	490
Product dimensions:	5.94(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.36(d)

About the Author

After studying and teaching drama and theatre arts at the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria; Iyorwuese Hagher retired as Professor of Theater and Drama and Chair, department of Theater and Film at the University of Jos Nigeria. Hagher is World famous for his seminal study of the Kwagh-hir Theater. He was Senator, Minister and Ambassador of Nigeria to Mexico and Canada. He lives in Dayton Ohio, where he is President African leadership Institute and works [volunteers] at the Victoria Theater/Schuster Centre. He is author of many books including: The Kwagh-hir Theater, Nigeria after the Nightmare, Diverse but not Broken, and A Day in Mexico City and other poems.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Redemption, Reconciliation and Healing. Iyorwuese Hagher's Collected Plays vii

Preface xi

Mulkin Matasa 1

Global Home 47

The Masquerade and the Elephant 73

The Professor and the Cathedral 107

Lifetimes 157

The Travails of James Skott 185

Lamp of Peace 199

Comrade and Voltage 219

The Prisoner's Dream 251

Anti-People 257

We Protest 311

Aishatu 337

The Camps of Segbwema 365

Mulkin Mata 395

Swera Karagbe: A Parable of Leadership 445

Editorial Reviews

Hagher’s plays in this volume capture his dramatic essence as advocate of social justice. His plays express disgust at public corruption, hypocrisy and mendacity. He is master of sublimation where his plays leave the theater and follow the spectator home. They provide common ground between utopia and dystopia.

Sunny Ododo

Hagher x-rays with avid passion and commitment in his plays, the essence of social rebirth, and social regeneration.

Olu Obafemi

In this Fifteen Plays, the craft and grit of Prof. Hagher’s talent and dramaturgy are for the first time in an extraordinary forty-one year career brought together in one massive frame. The fifteen plays of the collection do not just call us as witnesses to the depth and gift of Hagher’s literary penmanship and political activism, they ask us to sit back and enjoy the vast pleasure of an astonishing literary imagination.

Ph.D Obiwu

Iyorwuese Hagher’s plays in this collection bear a bold and ingenious stamp of idealism in the interface of drama with popular culture and politics. By incorporating Kwagh-hir symbolism and themes in his plays, Hagher has become an important world literary genre innovator. His plays are characterized by unending endings and subliminal ambiguity.

Emmanuel Dandaura