Using a performance of Wole Soyinka’s ‘Jero’s Metamorphosis’ as an entry point, the objective of this session is to address art and drama as important intellectual resources upon which activists and practitioners may draw to advocate and champion respect for human rights and good governance. In the context of CGHR ’s Practitioner Series, this discussion following the performance of the Jero Plays by Wole Soyinka will centre on Soyinka as a socio-political activist, and the larger prospects of using drama and art as part of an enlarged repertoire of platforms for championing the advocacy of human rights and governance. The showcase of the Soyinka play is a result of a parallel project at Goldsmith’s College, London: ‘Dialogical Mediation: Intellectual intervention within theatrical and aesthetic conceptualisation’. The discussion will be chaired by Dr. Ruth Watson and discussant Tim Cribb.