Death and the King's Horseman by Audrey Lee https://padlet.com/kcaudrey16/w8txzu6rwqgq Discussion on Characters en-us 2018-08-01 00:15:25 UTC 2025-06-20 16:54:37 UTC hello@padlet.com Jane Pilking https://padlet.com/kcaudrey16/w8txzu6rwqgq/wish/271606157 2018-08-01 00:18:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kcaudrey16/w8txzu6rwqgq/wish/271606157 Olunde https://padlet.com/kcaudrey16/w8txzu6rwqgq/wish/271606447 • Eldest son of Elesin - inheritor of the power and duties of the King's Horseman

• First impression of him is in a Europeon suit - more contact with the white colonals - study medicine

• Despite the influence he still remembers traditional customs - like all younger generation ( girls and education) - " No one can undertake what he does tonight without the deepest protection the mind can concieve"

• Understands both white & Yuruba culture, but understanding does not reflect favourably on the whites - "You have no respect for what you do not understand" - "You believe that everything which appears to make sense was learnt from you" - "What would you give name to that?" 
Unlike the whites who critisize blindly/without understanding

• Responsible son/Yuruban - carries out the ritual suicide after his father failed to do so

• Understand the ills of both societies and attempts to heal the sickness brought about by his father's failure by going on life instead]]> 2018-08-01 00:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kcaudrey16/w8txzu6rwqgq/wish/271606447 JOSEPH https://padlet.com/kcaudrey16/w8txzu6rwqgq/wish/271606448
- HOUSEBOY
- CHRISTIAN CONVERT 
-“MIX ME UP”-THE DRUMMING RESONATED WITH THE NATIVE ROOTS IN HIM. (PARALLEL WITH OLUNDE)

SUMMARISES THE MAIN INCIDENT
ONLY APPEARS IN SCENE 2
- TO SHOW THAT A PERSON THAT LEAVES THE CULTURE BECOMES A SLAVE, A “BOY”. 
EVEN AFTER HE TAKES THE SIDE OF THE COLONIALS HE IS NOT MUCH RESPECTED THAN BEFORE.
RESPECTS NATIVE CUSTOM EVEN AFTER CONVERSION (CONTRAST WITH PILKINGS)
]]> 2018-08-01 00:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kcaudrey16/w8txzu6rwqgq/wish/271606448 AMUSA https://padlet.com/kcaudrey16/w8txzu6rwqgq/wish/271606604
- SERGEANT
- REFUSED TO SPEAK TO THE PILKINGS IN EGUNGUN SUIT 
  “I NO FIT”
- “IS LIKE TALKING AGAINST GOVERNMENT TO PERSON IN THE UNIFORM OF POLICE”
- RESPECTS THE YORUBA CULTURE ALTHOUGH IS A MUSLIM

SCENE 3
“MANAGES TO PRESERVE SOME DIGNITY THROUGHOUT”
- RESPONSIBLE MAN, ALSO ECHOES THE THEME OF DUTY    “PERFORMANCE OF MY DUTY”
SIGNIFICANCE OF AMUSA
ELEVATES WOMEN’S POSITION IN THE MARKETPLACE
ALLOWS THE PORTRAYAL OF REBELLION OF THE YORUBA PEOPLE AGAINST THE COLONIALS]]> 2018-08-01 00:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kcaudrey16/w8txzu6rwqgq/wish/271606604 https://padlet.com/kcaudrey16/w8txzu6rwqgq/wish/271607204 2018-08-01 00:28:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kcaudrey16/w8txzu6rwqgq/wish/271607204 https://padlet.com/kcaudrey16/w8txzu6rwqgq/wish/271607223 2018-08-01 00:28:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kcaudrey16/w8txzu6rwqgq/wish/271607223