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Egungun Vocab
Theater History-Egungun Performance
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 1
12/03/2014
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Yoruba
 Definition
One of the three largest ethnic groups of Nigeria, concentrated in the southwestern part of that country. The majority of the Yoruba speak the Yoruba language which is a tonal Niger-Congo language.
Term
Egungun
 Definition
Central religious form that engages in ancestor worship; name for artform and people who perform it
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Wole Soyinka
 Definition

Death and the King Horseman (1975)

b. 1934

Nigerian playwright; political activist

Nobel Prize for Liturature 1986

Western elements are skillfully fused with subject matter and dramatic techniques deeply rooted in Yoruba folklore and religion

 

 
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marketplace
 Definition

Occupies the same place as colloseum, circus, mansion

Main performance space where the rituals happen; crossroads; meeting place
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