Jero’s Metamorphosis

Jero's Metamorphosis is a play by Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka. It is a satirical work that mocks the "clever preachers of upstart prayer-churches who grow fat on the credulity of their parishioners". The play was written in 1973 and is part of a larger body of Soyinka's work that often critiques African authoritarian leadership and expresses disillusionment with Nigerian society.1

It is important to distinguish Soyinka's play from Franz Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis, which was published in 1915 and tells the story of Gregor Samsa waking up transformed into a monstrous insect.2