The document summarizes Wole Soyinka's play "The Swamp Dwellers". It discusses the author Wole Soyinka, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The play is set in a village and examines themes of human relationships with the environment, abuse of power, wealth and poverty, and the meek. It introduces the major characters and their roles. Key events in the play include Alu and Makuri waiting endlessly for Awuchike to return, and the priest Kadiye abusing his power by stealing sacrifices meant for the swamp god. The beggar represents those in poverty who strive to determine their own fate.