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The Swamp Dwellers (1958) A Quality of Violence (1959) [1] The Lion and the Jewel (1959) The Trials of Brother Jero (1960) A Dance of the Forests (1960) My Father's Burden (1960) The Strong Breed (1964) Before the Blackout (1964) Kongi's Harvest (1964) The Road (1965) Madmen and Specialists (1970) The Bacchae of Euripides (1973) Camwood on the ...
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 ...
The Strong Breed is one of the best-known plays by Wole Soyinka.It is a tragedy that ends with an individual sacrifice for the sake of a community's benefit. The play is centered on the tradition of egungun, a Yoruba festival tradition in which a scapegoat of the village carries out the evil of the community and is exiled from the civilization.
Wole Soyinka being against Negritude movement,he was against the over glorification of pre colonial Nigeria and Africa at large. A Dance of the Forests was written to address such issues, illustrating that precolonial Africa, needs to change their deeds as it affect their whole life time. He uses dead characters and flashbacks to illustrate this.
Harmattan Haze on an African Spring is a book written in 2012 by Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka. The novel is set in Africa and their challenges; it also reflects the author's desire for a positive change in continent Africa.
The fossilized remains of a nearly 75-million-year-old “swamp dweller” have been discovered by paleontologists in northwest Colorado. The University of Colorado team behind the discovery has ...
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.
Paleontologists unearth 70-million-year-old ‘swamp dweller’ fossil in Colorado. KDVR Denver. Brooke Williams. October 23, 2024 at 8:16 PM.