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Work #1149 · Mid

Kongi's Harvest

Wole Soyinka
1965 · English
Dramatic play / Political satire · Yoruba-African drama / Anglophone African literature

Soyinka's 1965 political satire — the post-Independence African dictator-as-modernist

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Attribute Kongi's Harvest (Mid)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Finite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Tradition
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Kongi's Harvest

The mid-1960s post-Independence African moment.

Space

Kongi's Harvest

The fictional state of Isma; the broader post-Independence African political setting.

Matter

Kongi's Harvest

The embodied political community caught between traditional and modernising authorities.

Observer

Kongi's Harvest

The Yoruba community as proper participant-observer.

Energy

Kongi's Harvest

The political-religious energies of the conflict.

Information

Kongi's Harvest

The dramatic-political content of the satire.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Kongi's Harvest

Kongi's Harvest has remained one of Soyinka's most-staged plays; its anti-authoritarian political message has been variously received across different African political contexts.