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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 (-5[1])of The Strong Breed, the “mother of the market” (10[1])allows the (10[1])protagonist to marry and sleep (10[1])with her son’s fiancée. (10[1])Despite his assurances to the Praise-Singer in one of this author’s (10[1])plays, the father of the medical student Olunde hesitates until Simon Pilkings stops him from committing (10[1])ritual suicide. For 10 points, name this Nigerian author of Death and the King’s Horseman. ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: Wole Soyinka [or Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka]
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