CONFLICTS AND CULTURE MUTATION IN DIPO KALEJAIYE’S, THE CHOSEN BELOVED
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Human beings exist in a diverse world. There is a high tendency for complexities, resistance, and variations in setting boundaries between actions and inaction, leading to conflict. To define and maintain stability in society, conditions and causes for mutations in culture become an apparatus for centralizing human conflicts. The Chosen Beloved, written by Dipo Kalejaiye, is the yardstick used in this paper to measure the causes of deep changes in cultural dispositions when one culture is transported from its original location to a foreign land. This is an expository study of how changes in cultural perspectives affect relationships across all human existence spheres.
This study identifies how this situation could become a source of conflict. It examines the conflicts in The Chosen Beloved that were based on the transportation of Yoruba culture to the United States of America’s (USA) setting. This paper found that some Yoruba cultural aspects were not well represented in the play.
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cultural conflict, culture mutation, culture, globalization, religion, Dipo Kalejaiye.Downloads
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