Madmen and Specialists
Dr Bero comes back from the war having traded medicine for intelligence work, and keeps his own father locked in the cellar. Four maimed beggars squat in the yard reciting the doctrine of As, a philosophy of pure power the Old Man taught them at the front. Written straight out of the twenty-two months Soyinka spent in solitary detention during the Biafran war.
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