Death and the King’s Grey Hair and Other
| By: | Denja Abdullahi |
| Publisher: | University of Nairobi Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9789789181667 |
| eText ISBN: | 9789789182640 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Death and the King�s Grey Hair and Other Plays is a collection of three plays, �Death and the King�s Grey Hair,� �Truce with the Devil,� and �Fringe Benefits,� which are all experimental plays from the early period of the writing career of Denja Abdullahi, who is presently renowned as a poet of populist expressions. �Death and the King�s Grey Hair� examines the use and misuse of absolute power based on an ancient Jukun myth of young kings and short reigns. �Truce with the Devil� is a satire on the later abandonment of the creed of Marxism by its adherents, a kind of mockery of turncoat revolutionaries in the grip of practical social realities. �Fringe Benefits�, a radio play, is an expose of the happening in Nigeria�s ivory towers, seen from the eyes of a participant-observer.