Satire in post-independence African plays: A study of Efo Kodjo Mawugbe’s Prison Graduates (2015)

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Jonathan Essuman
Faith Ben-Daniels
Kingsley Brempong Ohene-Adu

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Post-independence African plays have been characterized by the disillusionment of playwrights with African reality. Corruption, which is chiefly political, and of other forms, and other pertinent neo-colonial issues have been religiously dealt with by these writers in their creative works. Through the tents of postcolonial theory, this article attempts to analyze Efo Kodjo Mawugbe’s Prison Graduates as a satire. A normative research method, which is based entirely on the impressionistic observations of the investigator was used in the data collection. Practically, satire has rightly become a preferred form of writing for various writers to express their disillusionment. In his text, Mawugbe uses satire to create a real African world which looks beyond foreign aids in order to claim African dignity and identity.

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Essuman, J., Ben-Daniels, F., & Ohene-Adu, K. B. . (2021). Satire in post-independence African plays: A study of Efo Kodjo Mawugbe’s Prison Graduates (2015). Research Journal in Advanced Humanities, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.58256/rjah.v2i1.500
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Faith Ben-Daniels, Akenten Appiah-Menka University of University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development, Department of Languages Education, P.O. Box 1277, Kumasi, Ghana.

Faith Ben-Daniels, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer of Literature at the Department of Languages Education, of the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana. Her research interests are in storytelling performances and its contribution to academia and society at large, theatrical developments in Africa, popular African music and the trajectories of new literatures from Africa and the African diaspora.

Kingsley Brempong Ohene-Adu, Akenten Appiah-Menka University of University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development, Department of Languages Education, P.O. Box 1277, Kumasi, Ghana.

Kingsley Brempong Ohene Adu is a lecturer of literature in the Department of Languages Education at the Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development. His research interests are in prison, exile and trauma literatures, narratology, and critical theory and has publications forthcoming on same. Currently, he is working on an in-depth study of postcolonial trauma.

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Essuman, J., Ben-Daniels, F., & Ohene-Adu, K. B. . (2021). Satire in post-independence African plays: A study of Efo Kodjo Mawugbe’s Prison Graduates (2015). Research Journal in Advanced Humanities, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.58256/rjah.v2i1.500

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