Conflicts and Culture Mutation in Dipo Kalejaiye’s The Chosen Beloved

Human beings exist in a diverse world. There is a high tendency for complexities, resistance, and variations in setting boundaries between actions and inaction, leading to conflict. To define and maintain stability in society, conditions and causes for mutations in culture become an apparatus for centralizing human conflicts. The Chosen Beloved, written by Dipo Kalejaiye, is the yardstick used in this paper to measure the causes of deep changes in cultural dispositions when one culture is transported from its original location to a foreign land. This is an expository study of how changes in cultural perspectives affect relationships across all human existence spheres. This study identifies how this situation could become a source of conflict. It examines the conflicts in The Chosen Beloved that were based on the transportation of Yoruba culture to the United States of America's (USA) setting. This paper found that some Yoruba cultural aspects were not well represented in the play. Introduction The totality of the individual reflects the culture of that society. The totality of the individual-birth, environment, history, growth, values, and beliefs-is all embedded in his culture. Therefore, culture is the totality of what and who we are. It is the summation of our lives, food, drink, dress, love, hate, and life. It is what a person is. Culture is the bridge through which constant changes occur. These may occur through information diffusion, innovation, and knowledge spread. Humans have always migrated from one location to another. Many factors are responsible for migration: political, economic, persecution, education, war, and the need to improve one's life situation. As people migrate from one part of the world to another, they go with their cultures. This leads to enculturation, culture hybridization, culture mutation, culture shock, and intercultural communication and interactions. This issue is interrogated using The Chosen Beloved, an unpublished play of Dipo Kalejaiye (a Nigerian) who moves
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