GCELiterature in EnglishAfrican Prose2021

In Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters, the character Sekoni is significant chiefly because he

Arepresents the idealistic African intellectual destroyed by a corrupt systemCORRECT
Bis the only character who successfully reconciles tradition with modernity
Cserves as the moral conscience who exposes government corruption
Dsymbolises the spiritual connection between the living and the dead
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Why the answer is A, and why the others tempt you.
Sekoni, an engineer and sculptor, returns from abroad with idealistic plans but is frustrated by bureaucratic corruption. His resulting breakdown and eventual death in a car accident symbolise the destruction of creative and idealistic potential by a corrupt post-independence Nigerian society. He embodies the tragedy of the African intellectual unable to function within a morally bankrupt system.
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