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"The Combat", published in 1972, unforgettably recounts the torn friendship between two contenders over the paternity rights of the child of a market girl, now a sophisticated businesswoman. A poignant memorial to the Biafran Civil War, it is also a vigorous and hilarious satire of the power-hungry manipulations of the largest black nation on earth, together with its South African intriguers.
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About the Author:
Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso was born of Yoruba-speaking parents in Akure, Nigeria, in 1943. He is known for dedication and commitment to fusing a socio-political reappraisal of Africa and respect for human dignity into most of his works. He was educated at King s College, Lagos and the University of Ibadan and then undertook a doctoral thesis on the modern Arabic Writer Ahmad Ba Kathir at the University of Edinburgh. Omotoso returned to Ibadan to lecture on Arabic studies, then moved to the University of Ife to work in drama. His major themes include interracial marriage, comic aspects of the Biafran-Nigerian conflict, and the human condition. From 2001 he has been a professor in the drama Department at Stellenbosch University. He currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
Review:
Although they have already achieved so much, Achebe, at 42, and Soyinka, at 39, are both, as writers go, relatively young men. Yet a new generation of writers who are quite clearly their heirs is already at work. Kole Omotoso, with his first novel, The Edifice, displays a mature freedom of form and style which can only come from a total confidence in his cultural position. That he should have brought it off so convincingly is a measure of how far African literature has travelled in only twenty years. --From Jeremy Brooks in The Sunday Times, London(9 April, 1972)
Kole Omotoso explores his theme through the use of allegory. Chuku and Ojo represent the two sides of the Nigerian conflict. Their child stands for the ideal unity and independence of the federation and the killing of the child symbolises the September and October massacres of Igbos in the north, which eventually led to the secession of Biafra. The Combat itself stands for the Civil War. --From Kadiatu Sesay in African Literature Today(1980)
Kole Omotoso explores his theme through the use of allegory. Chuku and Ojo represent the two sides of the Nigerian conflict. Their child stands for the ideal unity and independence of the federation and the killing of the child symbolises the September and October massacres of Igbos in the north, which eventually led to the secession of Biafra. The Combat itself stands for the Civil War. --From Kadiatu Sesay in African Literature Today(1980)
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- PublisherHeinemann
- Publication date1972
- ISBN 10 0435901222
- ISBN 13 9780435901226
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages88
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