Ozidi is a folk hero among the Ijo of Nigeria and the subject of The Ozidi Saga composed by playwright and poet John Pepper Clark . Its first performance was in 1966. == Plot == After his father is murdered by treacherous colleagues, Ozidi seeks vengeance so his father can join his ancestors. His goal is to call home his father from a limbo-like e...
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(from the article `African literature`) ...lyrical impulse. He has also written successful plays: Song of a Goat (performed in London at the 1965 Commonwealth Festival) is the tragedy of a ... A more experimental work, Ozidi (performed in the early 1960s; pub. 1966), is a stage version of a traditional Ijo ritual play, which in a native...
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