Question

The town idiot Temugedege (“teh-MOO-geh-DAY-gay”) is too stupid to realize why he was selected to be this sort of person in John Pepper Clark’s adaptation of the Ijaw (“EE-jaw”) Ozidi Saga. Odewale becomes one of these people in Ola Rotimi’s (10[1])The Gods are Not to Blame, which is based on an earlier play titled for a man with this role. One of these people who (-5[1])“did not hang” titles the best-known play by Duro Ladipo. (10[1])Hearing of the approaching burial of a man who had this role reminds another man that he had paid (10[1])for Olunde to go to medical school in England. (-5[1])Before (10[1])the action of a play, the death of a man with this role prompts Elesin to begin a ritual suicide before he is imprisoned by the colonial administrator Simon Pilkings. For 10 points, a Wole Soyinka play is titled for Death (10[1])and what (10[1])sort of leader’s “horseman?” ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: kings [or oba; accept The King Did Not Hang; accept Oedipus Rex or Oedipus the King; accept Ọba kò so; reject “king’s horseman” or “horseman”]
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