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Wole Soyinda

    Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that, in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones, fashions the drama of existence. His writing delves into the profound questions of life with a lyrical and insightful approach.

    Beautification of Area Boy
    Ibadan
    Isara
    Contemporary African Plays
    You Must Set Forth at Dawn: a Memoir
    Ake
    • 2013
    • 2007

      More than a major figure in the world of literature, Wole Soyinka is a courageous voice for human rights, democracy, and freedom. This work presents a chronicle of his thrilling public life, a meditation on justice and tyranny, and a mesmerising testament to a ravaged yet hopeful land.

      You Must Set Forth at Dawn: a Memoir
    • 2001

      Isara

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Two years after writing his celebrated childhood autobiography Ake, Wole Soyinka opened a tin box that had belonged to his father. The simple contents of this box provide the fuel for Isara the second instalment of Soyinka's memoirs. schovat popis

      Isara
    • 2000

      Ibadan

      • 397 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.9(13)Add rating

      The third volume in Soyinka's series of memoirs, the sequel to Ake and Isara. In a mixture of fact and fiction - to protect the innocent and nail the guilty and shape an often intolerable reality - it tells of the coming of age of a writer and political activist; and of a nation's betrayal. schovat popis

      Ibadan
    • 1999

      Contemporary African Plays

      • 382 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      4.2(16)Add rating

      The plays included in this volume are: Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka; Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo; The Chattering and the Song by Femo Osofisan; The Rise and SHine of Comrade Fiasco by Andrew Whalley; Woza Albert! by Percy Mtwa, et al; and The Other War by Alemseged Tesfai.

      Contemporary African Plays
    • 1995

      Set in Nigeria, amid the scenes of everyday racketeering and general disquiet, the police try to clear the area of undesirables, as a traditional wedding between two illustrious and ambitious families is about to take place. This play is by Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka.

      Beautification of Area Boy