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Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is a 2021 novel written by Nigerian playwright and novelist Wole Soyinka. It was released on 28 September 2021 by Bookcraft Africa. The novel is a political satire, inspired by a report that Nigerians are among the happiest people on Earth. It tells the story of Dr. Kighare Menka, a ...
This is a list of works by Wole Soyinka. Plays. Keffi's Birthday Treat (1954) ... Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth (Bookcraft, ...
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 chronicles his adult years, weaving personal experiences with significant moments in Nigeria's political history. The memoir opens with Soyinka reflecting on the complexities of his homeland and his lifelong commitment to justice and freedom. Through evocative storytelling, he recounts the pivotal role he played in Nigeria's ...
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 ...
Season of Anomy is the second novel by Nobel winning Nigerian playwright and critic Wole Soyinka.Published in 1973, it is one of only three novels published during Soyinka's highly productive literary career.
Madmen and Specialists is a play by Wole Soyinka, conceived in 1970 during his imprisonment in the Nigerian Civil War. The play, Soyinka's eighth, has close links to the Theatre of the Absurd. [1] Abiola Irele (in the Lagos Sunday Times) called it "a nightmarish image of our collective life as it appears to a detached and reflective consciousness".
Death and the King's Horseman builds upon the true story on which Soyinka based the play, to focus on the character of Elesin, the King's Horseman of the title. According to some Yoruba traditions, the death of the king must be followed by the ritual suicide of the king's horseman as well as the king's dog and horse, because the horseman's spirit is essential to helping the King's spirit ...
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