The Strong Breed (A Raça Forte) is one of the best known plays by Wole Soyinka. It's a tragedy that ends with the sacrifice of one individual for the sake of a community. The play centres on the tradition of a Yoruba festival, where the village scapegoat carrying the evil of the whole community and is exiled from civilization. The piece, which is heavily symbolic, suggests that death is a crucial distinction in the struggle between the will of the individual and that of the whole community. An underground current of repressive ideology affects the whole ritual. It confronts tradition with contemporaneity and is a symbol of the emergence of a new culture in Africa.