You waste your breath./Why did Baroka not request my hand/Before the stranger/Brought his book of images?/Why did the Lion not bestow his gift/Before my face was lauded to the world?/Can you not see? Because he sees my worth/Increased and multiplied above his own /. However, Sidi who has become famous and so having put on airs, told the woman the Baroka is too old and not fit enough to be her wife. She became the head wife because she was the last wife of the previous chief who was succeeded by Baroka, the Lion and as tradition demands, she becomes the head wife of the new chief.īale Baroka, the Lion, asked his head wife, whose duty it is to woo any woman the Bale wants for him, to tell Sidi to come for dinner one evening and to express his love for her, on his behalf. The final major character is Sadiku, the Lion's head wife. When in school he wears an old threadbare un-ironed English coat with tie and a waistcoat.
In the meantime his priority is to stop the payment of dowry. Lakunle is a young (of twenty three years) bombastic teacher in the village who is bent on bestowing Western culture onto the people of Ilunjinle. He has several wives and is courting the love of Sidi, the village's Belle (the Jewel). Bale Baroka, is the Lion of Ilunjinle and its chief. As a result she sees herself as above anyone in the village including Bale Baroka, the Lion of Ilunjinle.
Sidi is the Jewel: the village's belle whose beauty has been captured by a photographer and published in a magazine. In the Lion and the Jewel, Wole Soyinka tells a funny story - almost in style of the cunning Ananse folklores told in Ghana - involving four 'main' characters.
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