Death and the King’s Horseman
“Girl: Take your men out of here.
Amusa: I’m give you warning….
Girl: All right then. Off with his knickers!
Iyaloja: Daughters, please.
Amusa: The first woman wey touch me…
Iyaloja: My children, I beg of you…
Girl: Then tell him to leave this market. This is the home of our mothers. We don’t want the eater of white left-overs at the feast their hands have prepared.” (3046)
The scene where the Girl mocks Amusa is very witty, yet it also offers bits of knowledge into the troubles their native people were liable to because of the imperialism. Amusa is positively unlikeable, and is by all accounts a traitor to his folks by working for the pioneer chairmen. In any case, this decision makes a lot of sense under the circumstance. For people like Amusa and many different cases in territory of colonies thought that working with the Europeans would offer them monetary and social steadiness. Along these lines, Amusa can be viewed as an isolated character since he is part of a group of people that mistreats colonized individuals in various ways. He is in a difficult position, and makes the readers think of him in two different ways, both to ridicule and feel sorry about him.
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