What is it about?
How Esiaba Irobi represents the reenactment of the primordial in a modern world.
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Why is it important?
Society and human culture evolve and in the course of this evolution, brutish rituals and human behaviors are castaway, giving room to ethics and values that support true human existence.
Perspectives
Irobi's art provides a critique that deconstructs selfdestructive human perversity and cultural capital. It poses the question: what becomes of society when the the revolutionary becomes an object of terror himself?
Abba A. Abba
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This page is a summary of: Reinventing The Primordial: Human Blood Ritual and the Lure of Power in Esiaba Irobi’s Nwokedi, Journal of Language Literature and Culture, September 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/20512856.2017.1402470.
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