Poetry Books by Wole Soyinka
Publisher: Spectrum Books Limited
Published Date: 2003
Categories: Social Science
The text of a new lecture given by Soyinka at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs. The pamphlet reflects on question such as in Soyinka's words: "Shall we [Nigerians] ever arrive at an understanding of the futility of attempts to smother the expression of popular will...do we, or do we not need a radical shift that restores to us our stolen voices? Does the call for a national conference not ground itself in the illegitimate antecedence of our current democratic pretensions?" Wole Soyinka is as a dramatist, poet, novelist, essayist, political activist and professor, perhaps Africa's most brilliant cultural ambassador and critic, and a notable commentator on world affairs. He is the only black African to have received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published Date: 1998
Categories: Poetry
This collection brings together Idanre and Other Poems and A Shuttle in the Crypt, two powerful and distinctive volumes of the early poetry of Nobel Prize laureate and Nigerian exile Wole Soyinka. Taken has a whole, Soyinka's early poetry may be viewed as a valiant effort to reconcile the mysterious legacy of the old with the often harsh realities of an entire continent's abrupt entry into the twentieth century.
Publisher: Greenwood
Published Date: 1988
Categories: Social Science
This index will facilitate in-depth research into 20 of Soyinka's major works including plays, novels, and poetry. . . . An important tool for anyone engaged in the study of Soyinka's writings. Choice This is the first comprehensive index of subjects, themes, and proverbs in the works of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986. Designed to enhance comprehension of Soyinka's art, the index shows what ideas and objects are present in the author's works, how frequency of their usage can be used as one indicator of importance, and the relationships of themes, subjects, and proverbs among the characters in his works. Coverage includes all of Soyinka's major books: twelve plays, two autobiographies, two novels, three volumes of poetry, and one philosophical exploration of myth and literature. The compiler's critical introduction places the works in context and offers a valuable interpretation based on the materials contained in the Index.
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Published Date: 1988
Categories: Literary Criticism
This is an authoritive study of Nobel Prize winning writer Wole Soyinka.
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
Published Date: 1989
Categories: Nigeria
This volume contains poems from 1966 to 1989. A Shuttle in the Crypt, written while Soyinka was in prison, maps out the course trodden by a mind under solitary confinement. Idanre, a poem on the creation myth of Ogun, was written for the Commonwealth Arts Festival, while Mandela's Earth presents a selection of poems that are of searing urgency.
Publisher: African Writers Series
Published Date: 1994
Categories:
This collection is an effort to engage with Soyinka and his work at the critical level his achievement requires.
Publisher: Methuen Pub Limited
Published Date: 2002
Categories: Literary Criticism
By turns satirical and lyrical, this fourth collection of poetry, his first in ten years, spans the poet's recent experience of exile from Nigeria as well as the journeys that have followed his Nobel Prize for Literature award. Here are reflections on the deaths of politicians, dictators and dissident friends as well as invocations to fellow writers Ken Saro-Wiwa, Josef Brodsky and Chinua Achebe. In sections tellingly entitled 'Outsiders', 'Of Exits' or the poem sequence 'Twelve Canticles for the Zealot', Soyinka confronts political realities - religious fundamentalism, bigotry and the repression of free speech. Others such as "Lost Poems', 'Doctored Vision' or 'Visiting Trees (Night Hunt)' are evidence of a more private, interior search.
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
Published Date: 1986
Categories: Social Science
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Published Date: 2013
Categories: History
The first African recipient of a Nobel Prize in Literature offers a thought-provoking analysis of Africa's current crises while making recommendations for cultural and political renewal, exploring the region's history as it relates to the histories of other nations and critically assessing Africa's stances on race and religious tolerance. 10,000 first printing.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published Date: 1987-09-01
Categories: Poetry
A selection of poetry discussing political tensions and Africa's cultural traditions. Also includes an adaptation of the creation myth of Ogun, the Yoruba God of Iron.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Published Date: 1999-02-04
Categories: Drama
'Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest' - New York Times Book Review A Play of Giants is a savage satire on some of the best-known dictators of our time (including Idi Amin); it brings together a group of dictatorial African leaders at bay in an embassy in New York attempting to make decisions together. Its theatrical predecessors include: Genet's The Balcony and Brecht's Arturo Ui. From Zia with Love and A Scourge of Hyacinths; When the Military decrees that a crime carrying a prison sentence now retroactively warrants summary execution, confusion and fear permeate a society where the brutality and injustice of military rule is parodied by life inside prison - based on events in Nigeria in the early 1980s Wole Soyinka's stage play From Zia with Love and radio play A Scourge of Hyacinths, were produced in the early 90s.
Publisher: London ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published Date: 1973
Categories: Drama
The five plays in the first volume are linked by their concern with the spiritual and the social, with belief and ritual as integrating forces for social cohesion; the plays in the second volume trace the ironic development and consequences of 'progress.' All plays are based around themes in Nigeria.
Publisher: Three Crowns Books
Published Date: 1963
Categories: Drama
This is one of the best-known plays by Africa's major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. How the Lion hunts the Jewel is the theme of this ribald comedy.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published Date: 2001
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Within these interviews, Soyinka is forthright, clear and eloquent. He addresses many facets of his writing and plumbs pressing issues of culture, society and community.
Publisher: London : Rex Collings Limited
Published Date: 1972
Categories: Authors, Nigerian
A record of 27 months of imprisonment of a Nigerian writer held as a political prisoner in 1967-1969 at a time of civil war and secession of the state of Biafra.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published Date: 1967
Categories: Foreign Language Study
President Kongi (Wole Soyinka), the dictator of an African developing nation, is trying to modernize his nation after deposing King Oba Danlola (Rasidi Onikoyi). The different tribes are resisting unification, so he tries to reach his goal by any means necessary, including forcing government officials to wear traditional African outfits and seeking advice from the man he deposed. He demands tribute from Danlola in the form of a yam, an important food in the culture. Danlola's former lover Segi brings the dictator the head of her father as sacrifice.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published Date: 1990-09-13
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
The Nigerian author discusses African literature and the writer's role in African society as the modern equivalent of the tribal historian
Publisher: Vintage
Published Date: 1983
Categories: Authors, Nigerian
A book that tells of the author's experiences in Nigeria.
