the thesis advanced by Russell Davenport is essentially this:- the central conflict of our time is neither economic nor political- but philosophic, deriving from the rise of dialectical materialism with the failure of all those values and ideals upon which the life of Western man rests. [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/russell-w-davenport/the-dignity-of-man/]
The Lion and the Jewel is a play by Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka that was first performed in 1959. It chronicles how Baroka, the lion, fights with the modern Lakunle over the right to marry Sidi, the titular Jewel.[1] Lakunle is portrayed as the civilized antithesis of Baroka and unilaterally attempts to modernize his community and change its social conventions for no reason other than the fact…