Full Summary The Blood of A Stranger by Raymond Dele Charley

 The Blood of A Stranger is an remarkable dramatic piece in print by a Sierra Leonia writer and playwright, Raymond Dele-Charley. This performance was performed at the 1977 Festival of Arts and ethos (FESTAC) and won an decoration for the preeminent play.

 The mess about illustrates how Europeans, with the operational collaboration of more or less dodgy Africans, exploited and stole Africa’s strong means during the imposing era.

Theme :

 The Blood of A Stranger is a story of greed, selfish ambition, creature deceit, corruption, and exploitation.

Setting:

 Its locality is the village of Mando, from the past Sierra Leone during the colonial era. The joke about is a tragedy with a linear plot structure.

Summary

 Maligu, the Chief Adviser to Santigi (King of Mando) receives a memo to the appearance that a colorless work (Mr Whitehead) is arrival to Mando for tobacco farming. He approaches Soko, the fraudulent priest of Mando and convinces him to predict to the ruler and the persons that they must refreshing the visitor.

 Meanwhile, Mando has witnessed a come to of wars in the earlier period and has not been accommodating visitors. To them, visitors lowly sickness, disease and war. However, for the reason that they view Soko as a trusted conciliator between them and the determination of their forefathers, they comfortable Mr. WhiteHead.

 Kindo, the chief fighter and king’s schoolboy is suspicious of Soko’s claims having famous Soko and Maligu to be fraudulent men. On his arrival, Whitehead reveals to Maligu that his proper motive is to gather Mando diamonds and not tobacco farming. He strategy to deduce improvement of the people’s ignorance by decisive them that the diamonds are the devil’s stones. blocked pore has and lied to the ruler that he is obtainable to advantage the village.

 Moreover Whitehead gives the dwell in plus the king, callous drug, gin and tobacco which intoxicate them and bring about them misbehave.

 This represents the naughty authority of western culture. Whitehead attempts to rape Wara, Kindo’s female but his strategy fails. This represents the rape of Sierra Leone's (and really Africa’s) abundant possessions by the British (and other colonialists) during the regal and pre-colonial era.

 The story split ends on a tragic note. Soko the priest is killed by Parker, Whitehead’s justified give man. Kindo finds out and kills Parker and exposes their evil plans. Maligu and boil assert that Kindo be supposed to be banished in profile with custom and tradition having killed Parker during freedom from strife time.

 The emperor banishes Kindo, his personal son. Kindo kills Whitehead and foliage the village with his warriors. Kindo relics the assert of grounds every through the play.