This paper’s focus is primarily on Yoruba indigenous knowledge systems with management and sustainability of generational conflicts as presented in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and The Lion and the Jewel. Although these two plays were published decades ago and they have attracted attention of scholars and critiques from different academic and theoretical backgrounds, this paper attempts a ‘new’ reading of the plays thereby re-concentrating attention on the contemporary realities in the age of post-ness such as post-modernism, post-colonialism and post-pandemic that the whole world is battling with. These two plays are chosen to re-read how Soyinka has hypothesised that the mismanagement of generational gaps and conflicts has been affecting the sustainability of our indigenous systems for sustainable development.

Keywords: Yoruba, Indigenous language, Conflicts, Contemporary, Culture.