The passage is an extract from the play ‘Death and the king’s Horseman’. In this passage, Elesin had just been prevented from committing suicide as the tradition demands. Elesin was supposed to take his life in order to join the king in the world of the ancestors. Simon Pilkings, the District Officer, intervened to stop the suicide and save Elesin’s life.
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