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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]
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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.
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.
And Soyinka does not, like so many autobiographers, write from the smug perspective of the adult looking back, explaining and commenting and filling in gaps; rather, he captures the world as it must have seemed, in all its enchantment and perplexity, to the boy who was there.
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 ...
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