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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 ...
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 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]
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.
Wole Soyinka during a lecture at Stockholm Public Library on 4 October 2018. 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 .
In contrast to Barnett's review, Kelly notes a lack of quality writing throughout the selections; he calls the poems difficult to understand and says that they are full of overwriting and lack clarity, placing responsibility for this fault on the anthology and on Soyinka himself as editor.
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.
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 ...