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Death and the King s Grey Hair and Other Plays is a collection of three plays, Death and the King s Grey Hair, Truce with the Devil, and Fringe Benefits, which are all experimental plays from the early period of the writing career of Denja Abdullahi, who is presently renowned as a poet of populist expressions. Death and the King s Grey Hair examines the use and misuse of absolute power based on an ancient Jukun myth of young kings and short reigns. Truce with the Devil is a satire on the later abandonment of the creed of Marxism by its adherents, a kind of mockery of turncoat revolutionaries in the grip of practical social realities. Fringe Benefits , a radio play, is an expose of the happening in Nigeria s ivory towers, seen from the eyes of a participant-observer.
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