This analysis is significant because the researchers investigated the colonial resistance captured in the play through postcolonial theory. To achieve this aim, textual analysis is used by combining its important approaches: author-oriented approach and context-oriented approach. Based on the aforesaid arguments, this study aims to explore the dramaturgicals, theatricals or thespians used in Yerima's Attahiru (1999) in order to repudiate and resist the distorted versions of the colonial history of Sokoto Caliphate in an effective and affective way. Theatre, which is considered the most symbolic form of art, can be historically educative and evocatively accurate.
Many theatre scholars and playwrights argue that the value of these plays, which were primarily regarded as fiction or imaginative reconstruction of the past, may prevail over history. The relationship between history proper and African historical plays drew much attention of researchers in recent years. Besides, participants in the play employed the different contextual backgrounds to 'pract' condemning, warning, exhorting, delaying and educating. Our findings revealed that Nigerianisms in the play are employed in the contexts of language transfer, lexical borrowing, proverbs metaphors, pidgin, symbolism, reference inference, shared situational knowledge (SSK) and shared cultural knowledge (SCK). Forty (40) utterances in 'DKH' were purposively selected for the study, while the simple percentage statistical approach was utilized to analyze Nigerianisms in English usage in the text. " Pragmeme, that is " generalized, " pragmatic act, " is apt in analyzing the language use in drama like that of " DKH " since when we co-opt, influence others, and set up people through language we perform " pragmatic acts " (Mey, 2001). They are determined by the broader social context in which they happen, and they realize their goals in the conditions placed upon human action by that context. " Pragmatic acts " are situation – derived and situation – constrained. According to Mey (2001), 'pragmatic act' deals with situating our speech acts in a context especially when analyzing people's conversation. " Pragmeme " was employed in examining the English usage in the text. Apart from the foregoing, very scanty research exists on the pragmatic analysis of Nigerianisms in the English language usage in the play. Earlier studies on Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman (DKH) have been focused on the stylistic (Adejare 1995), literary (Dasylva, 2004), and pragmatic (Odebode, 2002), Aremu, 2008) analyses of this historical and ritual drama.
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