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The Wole Soyinka Annual Lecture Series was founded in 1994 and "is dedicated to honouring one of Nigeria and Africa's most outstanding and enduring literary icons: Professor Wole Soyinka". [115] It is organised by the National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity) , which Soyinka with six other students founded in 1952 at the then ...
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.
It was founded in 1952 by seven friends who adopted the name "Magnificent 7". [3] The Magnificent 7 are: [3] Ikpehare Aig-Imoukhuede; Olumuyiwa Awe; Sylvanus U. Egbuche; Pius Oleghe; Nathaniel Oyelola; Ralph Opara; Wole Soyinka; The Pyrates Confraternity went on to become the only confraternity on Nigerian campuses for almost twenty years. [4]
When Soyinka was awarded, he became the first African laureate. [2] He was described as one "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence". Reed Way Dasenbrock writes that the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Soyinka is "likely to prove quite controversial and thoroughly deserved".
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 Road is a 1965 play by Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian playwright, poet, and director. [1] The play explores the activities at a roadside workshop, known as Aksident Store, where drivers discuss their experiences on the road.
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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.