Community and the Individual in the Dramatic World of the Igbo:                                   Conformity and Contestation

Osita Catherine Ezenwanebe

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Osita Catherine Ezenwanebe

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The Igbo popular maxim, Ohaka (community is supreme), is a product of the people's interacting life and exemplifies their belief in the power of unity that inheres from communal living. However such patriotic value as implied in the aphorism is rift with challenges in modern time and drama as a reflection of the people's interacting life recreates both the challenges and the people's response to them. This paper therefore examines instances of conformity to and divergence from the value of ohaka in selected dramatic literature of the Igbo in order to evaluate its significance in contemporary world. This is done through the analysis of character's response to the issues of ohaka as dramatized in 'Zulu Sofola's Wedlock of the Gods (1972).

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Community and the Individual in the Dramatic World of the Igbo: Conformity and Contestation. (2014). Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 14(A8), 21-30. https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/1219

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