Ambanasom\u27s Son of the Native Soil and the Western Concept of the Tragic Hero

In his article Ambanasom\u27s Son of the Native Soil and the Western Concept of the Tragic Hero Denis Fonge Tembong discusses the view that although African and Western literatures are fundamentally different as they exhibit or represent distinct cultural values, they nevertheless share some common notions. The concept of a tragic hero is one of those convergent loci where the two literatures meet. With this in mind, Tembong examines in Aristotle\u27s and Shakespeare\u27s concepts of the tragic hero and demonstrates how the ideas exploited in Macbeth are similarly used in Shadrach A. Ambanasom\u27s Son of the Native Soil against the backdrop of African cultures and literatures