UNIBEN’s Department of English adopts Ebhohon’s ‘The Great Delusion’ as study text
By Editor
THE Department of English and Literature, University of Benin, Benin City, has adopted Mr. Majekodunmi Oseriemen Ebhohon’s The Great Delusion as study text. The play won the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Drama Prize 2025 and also featured in teh week-long Lagos Book and Art Festival (LABAF) 2025, organized by the Committee for Relevant Arts (CORA). Mr. Ebhohon is an alumnus of the department.
“We extend our sincere appreciation to the department and the University of Benin for their unrelenting commitment to intellectual solvency, critical inquiry, and rigorous engagement with contemporary African thoughts,” said Chairman, Institute of Episteresurrecist Arts (IEA), Mr. Charles Odibechi Nwajei. “Such institutional openness to a debut work that won ANA drama prize (2025) remains vital to the future of scholarship and creative production across the continent and its global diaspora.”
The Great Delusion by Mr. Ebhohon is a theatrical tragedy and socio-political satire formulated within the frameworks of Afrocession and Episteresurrecism, assessed by Professor G.G. Darah as a “major contribution to the literature of diaspora civilization.” The drama explores a distinct thematic architecture that includes ‘Afrocession Framework’, ‘The Collapse of Parasitic Civilization’, ‘Episteresurrecism’ and ‘Distinctions and Recognition’.
A dramatisation of the global, coordinated withdrawal of the Black race from the structures of Western hegemony, it posits the return to the ancestral homeland as a final, decisive response to centuries of systemic exploitation. The play dramatises the terminal decline of a global order which, having built its advancement upon the unacknowledged scientific and manual labour of Black Africans, finds itself intellectually and structurally insolvent upon their departure.
It proposes a shift from contesting historical erasure to the active restoration of African sovereignty, centering the consequences of a world suddenly deprived of the Black ingenuity that anchored its foundations.
Published by Ofuname Waves Publishers, The Great Delusion features a foreword by a professor of History, University of Central Florida, Dr. Vibert Issa White, and a critical review by an eminent scholar of Oral Literature, Folklore, and Cultural Studies, Professor G.G. Darah.
“We are honoured by this adoption and grateful for the confidence placed in the work by an institution committed to sustained intellectual rigour,” concluded Nwajei.
