Death & The King’s Horseman
“These natives here? Good gracious. They’ll open their mouths and yap with you about their family secrets before you can stop them” (29).
Here, Simon Pilkings is talking about how the natives in the Yoruba village are eager to spread their business around to anyone that will listen. Similar to many instances throughout the play, Simon is being contradictory yet again. He is a colonist, who’s literal mission in Nigeria is to be nosy and to basically govern the natives. He is disgusted by the fact that the natives are eager to spread their business, when in reality the Pilkings and all the other colonialist are eager themselves to know what’s going on. In fact, their duty is to know what’s going on, and they fail at this when they are not even aware about the fact that the king’s horseman is planning on committing suicide soon.
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