Idanre
A night walk through a thunderstorm into the hills of Idanre becomes a passage taken in company with Ogun, the Yoruba god of iron, war and the creative act, who crossed the abyss between gods and men and then turned his blade on his own army at Ire. Shorter poems in the volume move from harvest and roadside death to the first Nigerian coup. Soyinka's fullest statement of the deity he adopted as a working principle for tragedy.
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