This author wrote a play about a family whose duty is to carry a dwarf boat out to the river once a year. This author created a group of women that chants “little children are our champions” after their daughters mock and chase away a policeman trying to stop a wedding. Jaguna’s trap kills the protagonist of a play by this author, in which a mentally challenged boy is replaced as the “carrier” by Eman. In a play by this author of The Strong Breed, the “mother of the market” allows the protagonist to marry and sleep with her son’s fiancée. Despite his assurances to the Praise-Singer in one of this author’s plays, the father of the medical student Olunde hesitates until Simon Pilkings stops him from committing ritual suicide. For 10 points, name this Nigerian author of Death and the King’s Horseman. ■END■
ANSWER: Wole Soyinka [or Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka]
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