Q2) In the play's preface, Soyinka states flatly that seeing Death and the King's Horseman just as a drama about a "clash of civilizations" and the role of colonialism in Nigeria is incorrect and reductive. Instead, he wants readers and potential filmmakers to concentrate on Elesin's dilemma as he fails to complete his suicide for a variety of reasons unrelated to Pilkings' attempts to stop him. Despite this warning, colonialism, racism, and prejudice loom large in the storey, if only because it takes place in colonial Nigeria during WWII. In terms of colonialism, Death and the King's actions are significant. When considered in terms of colonialism, the action of Death and the King's Horseman becomes less about one man's failure to uphold his society's traditions and maintain cosmic order instead, Elesin and Olunde's deaths come to symbolize the death of the Yoruba society as a whole under colonial rule.
Q3) The praise singer say that the white slavers took away the heart of their race. The praise sinbger the says that in time the great wars came and went, the little wars came and went, the white slavers came and went, they took away the heart of our race, they bore away the mind and the muscle of our race. They have ripped the locals of there culture, traditions and values while trying to implement theres.
Q4) Two cultures, Yoruba and British, are uneasily occupying the same geographic space, although their emotional and spiritual worlds could not be further apart. During Acts 2 and 4, for example, the British listen to tango and orchestral music, while the sound of African drumming is continually heard in the background. Both communities call their members together during the same evening: The British hold a fancy-dress ball with the prince in attendance, and the Yoruba gather for the ritual suicide of the king’s richly robed horseman and the burial of the king and his entourage. Although the differences are interesting to observe, the two communities do not enrich each other, but remain apart.
Q5) Amusa is a native Nigerian who accepted islam and servers under Pilkings for the British. He is a symbol for all such people who worked for the Britrish colonizers and werent accepted by their own tribe and labelled as traitors
