The àwàdà phenomenon: Exploring humour in Wole Soyinka’s Alápatà Apátà
This article explores the deployment of humour in Wole Soyinka’s new and full-length play Alápatà Apátà. The emergence of Moses Olaiya (otherwise known as Baba Sala) on the Nigerian theatre scene at a time it was dominated by such colossuses as Hubert Ogunde, Duro Ladipo, and Kola Ogunmola, as a...
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| Language: | English |
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Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
2018-12-01
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| Series: | The European Journal of Humour Research |
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| Online Access: | https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/318 |