A Play of Giants by Wole Soyinka (Book-Review)

A gripping and fantasic account of how absolute political power gives birth to fascism. Pitched in the bitter years after independence of Africa, the play brings together three great dictators of Africa, ruthless in their demonstration of power, boasts of their glory and how the innocents lie grovelling at their mercy. However Soyinka shows that there is an end to totalitarianism. The end of the play is absolutely marvelously penned. It shows that the face of oppression, the State is always the same, every time and everywhere. There is no face of power. It is flowing everywhere.