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Kongi's Harvest is a 1970s Nigerian drama film directed by Ossie Davis. The film was adapted from a screenplay by Wole Soyinka adapted from his 1965 play of the same name.
Feb 6, 2021 · Kongi's Harvest is a 1970 Nigerian film directed by Ossie Davis, from a screenplay by Wole Soyinka adapted from his 1965 play by the same name.
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Kongi's Harvest: Directed by Ossie Davis. With Wole Soyinka, Rasidi Onikoyi, Banjo Solaru, Femi Johnson. An African dictator (Wole Soyinka) seeks advice from the king (Rashidi Onikoyi) he ousted on modernizing his tribal nation.
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- Ossie Davis
- 1973-02
Plot Summary of Kongi's Harvest. President Kongi, the dictator of an African developing nation, is trying to modernize after deposing King Oba Danlola, who is being held in...
An African dictator (Wole Soyinka) seeks advice from the king (Rashidi Onikoyi) he ousted on modernizing his tribal nation.
- Ossie Davis
- Drama
- Wole Soyinka
Kongi's Harvest is a 1965 play written by Wole Soyinka. It premiered in Dakar, Senegal, at the first Negro Arts Festival in April 1966. It was later adapted as a film of the same name, directed by the American Ossie Davis. The play was published in 1967 in London and New York by Oxford University Press (Three Crowns Books; 96 pp).
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Kongi's Harvest is, as the playwright put it, a play "about Power, Pomp and Ecstasy": the power of autocratic president Kongi, the pomp of detained king Danlola, the ecstasy of Segi and Daodu who oppose the dictator. It is one of Soyinka's finest plays.
