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Wole Soyinka [a] (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright, poet, novelist and actor. He is widely regarded as one of Africa's greatest writer and one of the world's most important dramatists. In July 2024, President Bola Tinubu renamed the National Arts Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos, after Soyinka. Tinubu announced this in a tribute he wrote to ...
Wole Soyinka CFR (born Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka; born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language.He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "wide cultural perspective and... poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence", the first sub-Saharan African to win the Prize in literature.
Of Africa is a book written by Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist who is also the author of The Bacchae of Euripides (1969), Season of Anomy amongst others. [1] The book was centered on Africa's culture , religion , history , imagination, and identity, examining how its past intertwines with that of others.
You Must Set Forth at Dawn is an autobiographical work by the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright, poet and political activist Wole Soyinka. [1] [2] [3] In this compelling memoir, Soyinka provides an intimate glimpse into his life as an adult, detailing his experiences in and out of Nigeria during some of the nation's most tumultuous periods.
The house at 8 Ebrohimie Road, University of Ibadan once housed Wole Soyinka and his family. The film returns to persons who knew the home, lived in it, or interacted with Soyinka and his family throughout his stay in Ibadan, and afterwards, to construct a story that intersects with the history of the university itself, the nation, and Soyinka's personal journey into literary superstardom.
This is a list of works by Wole Soyinka. Plays. Keffi's Birthday Treat (1954) The Invention (1957) The Swamp Dwellers (1958) A Quality of Violence (1959) [1]
The Interpreters is a novel by Wole Soyinka, first published in London by André Deutsch in 1965 [1] and later republished as part of the influential Heinemann African Writers Series. [2] It is the first and one of the only three novels [3] [4] written by Soyinka; he is principally known as a playwright. The novel was written in English and ...
The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka is a 1972 non-fiction book by Wole Soyinka that explores Soyinka's experiences in prison during the Nigerian Civil War. In 1984, a Nigerian court banned the book. [1] In 2011, The Guardian included The Man Died on their list so of the 100 greatest non-fiction books. [2]