Men As Little Gods is a play about an historian who follows an activist around to write down his story and ends up being arrested with him. Although her goal is to understand him at first, and to write correct history as opposed to foreigners’ portrayals of her country's history, she later realises that their journey has made her a name and popular book while it has brought his downfall. His unmaking makes her.

 

She witnesses the activist's life grabbed from under him by his colleagues and watches money and selfish interests destroy what would have been a movement growing into a revolution. She watches the man she has grown to love lose not only the battle against patriarchy, dictatorship, and corruption – but also himself and his belief in self improvement and self liberation. She realises that activists are broken by the very people who are supposed to uplift them and that perhaps her people are aiming too high to want communal liberation when they haven't attained their own self discipline and individual liberation.

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This is a story about why dictatorships last so long, and why non-intersectional protest rarely yields fruits in an African country where every man who gets into power (even if that power is nothing more than the illusion of power) assumes the role of a little god! This is the story of two revolutionaries using different means to liberate themselves and their communities, only to realise that change takes more than just dreams and ideals. It requires sacrifices that perhaps the people of their country have not yet made.