This document summarizes Wole Soyinka's play "The Swamp Dweller" published in 1958. It discusses the story of a village man named Makhuri who lives alone in the swamps making baskets. The document contrasts traditions of village life like family and religion with modern aspects of city life like nuclear families and materialism. It analyzes characters like Makhuri, Awuchike, Igwezu, Alu and Desala and their attitudes towards village versus town life. Themes of faithfulness, work, and honesty are compared with corruption and greed.

1. Name :- Gohel Ankita Kishorbhai.
Roll no:- 12
Sem-4
Paper no:-13(The African Literature)
 Email Id :-ak.gohel4433@gmail.com
Submitted by: Dept of English,
M.K.Bhavnagar University
Year:- 2015-17.
Old and new way of life living in Africa
–The Swamp Dweller

2. Wole Soyinka
He Born in small village of
Nigeria in 1934.
He awarded the Noble prize in
literature.
He was one of the few African
writers to denounce the slogan of
Negritude as a tool of autocracy .
The Swamp Dweller published
in 1958
Plays:
1. The Invention
2. The Lion and the Jewel
3. A Dance in the Forest

3. Old and new way of life living in Africa
–The Swamp Dweller
Old New
1) Tradition
2) The Village
3) Join family
4) Relationship
5) ReligiousThinking.
1) Modernity
2) The city
3) Nuclear family
4) No relationship
5) Materialistic
Thinking.

4. • “A village in, the swamps. Frogs rain and other noises. The
scan is a hut on stilts built on one of the scattered semi-firm
island in the swamp. The walls are marsh stakes plaited with
hump ropes. Near the left down stage are the baskets he
makes from the rushes which are strewn in front of him.” –
Makhuri.

5. “Makuri: - The city is a large place .You
could live there all your life and never
meet half the people in it.”

6. Town
Simple
minded
people
Corruption
less place
Country
Money
minded
people
Place of
Corruption

7. • Left home, Living in town
• callous, self centred,
egoistic, nonchalant,
unmindful, undutiful
disobedient towards
parents
Awuchike
• Living in village
• He is obedient, dutiful
towards his parents.Igwezu

8. Alu
Faithful wife,
Demanding for
Town Life
Love to Swamp
Life, Simple
and Honest
Desala
Unfaithful
wife, Rejecting
offer ofTown
life.
Attracted to
Urban Life,
Leaves for
Husband for
Money

9. Beggar
Belive in work
and earn
Earning by
Laboring
The Priest
Taking things
from village
Earning by
False bait and
depiction