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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 writers and one of the world's most important dramatists. He is widely regarded as one of Africa's greatest writers and one of the world's most important dramatists.
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]
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.
Telephone Conversation (1963) (appeared in Modern Poetry in Africa); Idanre and other poems (1967); A Big Airplane Crashed into The Earth (original title Poems from Prison) (1969)
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.
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.
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Wole Soyinka CFR (born Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka; born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language.He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "wide cultural perspective and... poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence", the first sub-Saharan African to win the Prize in literature.