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Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi and Ahmed Yarima's The Trials of Oba Ovonramwen focus on fear and how its engineer tragic outcomes. This research explores themes like fear, colonialism and resistance in these plays. Using tenets of affect theory, it portrays how fear as an emotion can lead to negative impact. It investigate how the emotion of fear shape the tragic events in both historical plays, and the non-fictional personality; Ovonramwen Nogbaisi. This essay highlights the consequences of fear, how it led to war between the British colonialists and the Benin warriors and eventually the exile of Oba Ovonramwen. Its employs qualitative research methods which focus on non-numerical data to have a full understanding of experiences, opinions and behaviours. This research concluded that fear is not a passive emotion but an active emotion.
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