“Children of a lesser God” and the Okada Riders of Calabar

By Orok Duke, PhD “Children of a lesser God” is a metaphor used to describe marginalized or misunderstood people—like the deaf protagonist in Mark Medoff’s 1979 play and 1986 film. The phrase originally comes from Alfred Tennyson’s 1859 poem Idylls of the King, where it describes a world degraded by war. It implies that if... The article “Children of a lesser God” and the Okada Riders of Calabar…