The pictures of the village and villages especially that of Side is proud of her beautiful image in the magazine. Later several young girls run up to Side to tell her that the stranger is back with a magazine that contains. He confess his love for her grabs Side and pecks her to her disgust and anger. Lakunle tells Sidi to agree marrying him without pride price before he gives her the pail.

Lakunle refuses telling her that soon machine will do all the hard work. Sidi informs him that he is a madman of the village and gets angry with him demanding her pail of water. She meets with the village school teacher who takes her pail and berates her for carrying load on her head and dressing immodestly. The play started as Sidi, the village belle of Ilujinle enters the square with a pail of water. The time setting indicates a traditional society undergoing some changes between tradition and modernity. This is seen in the life of the school teacher, Lakunle. It is also set when Africa and its culture is seen by few modernized Africans as primitive, barbaric and uncivilized. It is set when Africans believe in polygamy as seen in Baroka the Lion. Sidi like lakunle and his modernity but prefers Baroka the old and experienced in the culture the people and who can pay her bride price unlike Lakunle who prefers marrying her without bride price payment. Socially,it is set when there is partial acceptance of modernity and all that come with it. The time frame of the drama is morning, noon and night. Physically, it is set at the village centre, where the school headed by Lakunle is located, at a road by the village market, behind the Odan tree, Baroka’s bedroom, at the market where night trading is taking place in the village of Ilunjinle. It is set in Nigeria geographically especially in the Yoruba village called Ilunjinle. He received noble prize for literature in 1986. He wrote three short plays:The trial of Brother Jero, Jero’s metamorphosis, You Must Set Forth At Dawn etc. He wrote other books like A Dance of the forests, The Road, Kongi’s Harvest.

Identify the writer of The Lion and the Jewel. TOPIC – Background of the playwright, Wole Soyinka, setting of The Lion and the Jewel and plot of the drama book.īy the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:

The lion and the jewel play