Madmen and Specialists
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Madmen and Specialists is a play by Wole Soyinka
, conceived during his imprisonment in the Nigerian Civil War
. It concerns Dr. Bero, a corrupt specialist, who imprisons and torments his physician father.
Wole Soyinka
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...
, conceived during his imprisonment in the Nigerian Civil War
Nigerian Civil War
The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Nigerian-Biafran War, 6 July 1967–15 January 1970, was a political conflict caused by the attempted secession of the southeastern provinces of Nigeria as the self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra...
. It concerns Dr. Bero, a corrupt specialist, who imprisons and torments his physician father.