The Global Stage for Humanity and the African Disposition: A Case Study of Efo Kodjo Mawugbe’s Upstairs and Downstairs

Abstract

This paper discusses the socio-economic challenges faced by African nations as presented in the radio drama written by Ghanaian playwright, Efo Kodjo Mawugbe. The play, entitled Upstairs and Downstairs, uses lunatics to discuss the various challenges that face Africa’s majority underprivileged. This paper looks at how characterization and the symbolic use of setting have been used to discuss issues of poverty and poverty alleviation by highlighting the all important duty of the African storyteller to tell the story.

Keywords: Socio-economic challenges, characterization, light house, symbol, lunatics, conference.