How Did University of Ghana Become Nigeria’s Deus Ex Machina?
The Deus Ex Machina (god from the machine) is not a particularly desirable thing in the development of any plot. Even in ancient Greek tragedies, where its most notorious user, Euripides, was alleged to have employed the device in nearly half of his plays, it was not seen as the most effective way to resolve the conflict in any dramatic action. Aristotle and Nietzsche criticized Euripides’s rampant engagement of a plot device that seemed to arise from outside the action. When Shakespeare made use of the device in Hamlet, Pericles and The Winters Tale, some of the critics in the renaissance era viewed it as a rough way to tie the pieces together. The Deus Ex Machina is a device that playwrights employ to bail out a desperate situation when all possible means have been exhausted. It is the last resort. For instance, if any playwright decided to write a play about the drama surrounding the use of an office by Ex-president Kufour, the Deus Ex Machina could be used to invoke the spirit of D
