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  2. Wole Soyinka - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. The Man Died - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Wole Soyinka bibliography - Wikipedia

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  5. Harmattan Haze on an African Spring - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. ‘Turning my life into something people can watch, pains me ...

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    Now aged 90, the first Black African to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature speaks about the movie “The Man Died,” his time in prison and his hopes for the future.

  7. Of Africa - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. The Interpreters (novel) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

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    Wole Soyinka, who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, was inspired by a report that Nigerians are among the happiest people on Earth, began writing almost two decades later and before the COVID-19 pandemic. [2] [3] [4] The book was written in two sessions of 16 days between Senegal and Ghana.