Title: A dance of masks
Description: This text searches for themes about African self-identity by exploring images of the mask in the poetry of Senghor, the fiction of Achebe, and the drama of Soyinka. It focuses on the mask as a concept - an interplay that involves the mask and its wearer.
Subjects: African literature (French), Criticism and interpretation, Masks in literature, History and criticism, African literature (English), In literature, Literature, Maske, Africa, civilization, Senghor, leopold sedar, 1906-2001, African literature, history and criticism, Achebe, chinua, 1930-2013, African literature, Dance in literature
Places: Nigeria
People: Chinua Achebe, Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906-), Wole Soyinka