Wole Soyinka as a Nigerian Ecofeminist and an Antipathetical to Globalized Experiences

Abstract

The major tenet of this research is to understand to what extent Wole Soyinka is seen as an ecofeminist playwright alienating globalized concepts. Ecofeminism is one of the most remarkable movements that was developed by a group of women during the period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (specifically; from the early1870s to the early 1980s). Most prominent among those women was the French feminist activist Françoise D‟Eaubonne. D‟Eaubonne explains how the concept of “Ecofeminism” was primarily applied by a few feminists who dedicated their efforts to analyzing the mutual relation between male-dominated social institutions and deteriorated injured environments. In this paper, the researcher attempts a comprehensive analysis of Soyinka‟s remarkably famous play, A Dance of the Forests (1963). This analysis engages the non-Nigerian reader to the core of the Nigerian natural society where Soyinka criticizes the deterioration of the morals of his society; a decay which coincided with the ruin of nature itself.