Afolayan, Kayode Niyi2021-06-172021-06-172018-05Afolayan, K.N. (2018) Dystopia in Transcultural Settings: Soyinka’s Beatification of Area Boy: A Lagosian Kaleidoscope. CALEL: Currents in African Literature and the English Language. Volume VIII; 15-21, Published by Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Calabar.https://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12484/6123The paper focuses on Wole Soyinka's Beatification of Area Boy: A Lagos Kaleidoscope (1995) and engages the playwright's excursion into multicultural settings where there are issues of disfunction in the postcolonial space. The conclusion of the paper is that Soyinka's association with the hybrid space brings to the fore the a multidimensional approach in the negotiation for utopia in the hybridized postcolonial spaceenDystopiaTranscultural SettingPostcolonialityArticle