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The town idiot Temugedege (“teh-MOO-geh-DAY-gay”) is too stupid to realize why he was selected to be this sort of person in John Pepper Clark’s adaptation of the Ijaw (“EE-jaw”) Ozidi Saga. Odewale becomes one of these people in Ola Rotimi’s (10[1])The (-5[1])Gods are Not to Blame, (-5[1])which is based (10[1])on an earlier play (10[1])titled for a man with this role. (-5[1])One of these people who (-5[1])“did not hang” titles the best-known play by Duro Ladipo. (10[1])Hearing of the approaching burial of a man who had this role reminds another man that he had paid (10[1])for (-5[1])Olunde (-5[1])to go (10[1])to medical school in (10[1])England. (10[1]-5[1])Before (10[1])the action of a play, the death of a man with this role prompts (-5[1])Elesin (10[1]-5[1])to (10[1])begin (10[1]-5[1])a ritual (-5[1])suicide (-5[1])before he is imprisoned by the colonial administrator (10[1])Simon Pilkings. For 10 points, a Wole Soyinka play (10[1])is titled for Death (10[2]-5[2])and what (10[1])sort (10[1]-5[1])of leader’s “horseman?” (10[3]-5[1])■END■ (10[12]0[2])

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