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A Dance of the Forests by Wole Soyinka, 1963-01-01 The Road by Wole Soyinka, 1970 Beautification of Area Boy (Modern Plays) by Wole Soyinka, 1995-09-11 The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka by Wole Soyinka, 1994-08-18 The Man Died: The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka by Wole Soyinka, 1988-10 Death and the King's Horseman a Play By Wole Soyinka by Wole Soyinka, 1987 Soyinka Plays: "A Play of Giants"; "From Zia with Love"; "A Source of Hyacinths"; "The Beatification of Area Boy" v. 2 (Contemporary Dramatists) by Wole Soyinka, 1999-02-04 Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years - A Memoir, 1945-67 by Wole Soyinka, 2007-04-26 The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite by Wole Soyinka, 2004-07 Novels of Wole Soyinka by M. Rajeshwar, 1990-05-01 Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, and Postcolonialism (Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature) by Biodun Jeyifo, 2009-05-07 Wole Soyinka: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources (Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African Studies) by James Gibbs, 1986-01-22 Wole Soyinka ; An Anthology of Recent Criticism Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka by Wole Soyinka, 1972-11

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21. BBC - Radio 4 - Reith Lectures 2004 - Climate Of Fear
    Series of Reith Lectures given by wole soyinka on the Climate of Fear in 2004. wole soyinka, The Man Died The Prison Notes of wole soyinka  
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2004/lecturer.shtml
    
    Extractions: Nobel Laureate, playwright, poet and political activist, was born on July 13, 1934, in Abeokuta, Western Nigeria, and lived with his family in the Aké quarter of the city. At that time, his homeland was still a British dependency. His father was the headmaster of an Anglican primary school, and his mother, whose nickname was "Wild Christian," was a shop owner and teacher. In 1981, Soyinka published Aké, a memoir about his youth, which James Olney of the New York Times described as "a classic of childhood memoirs wherever and whenever produced." A precocious, intellectually omnivorous child, Soyinka sated his hunger for knowledge at his home, which he describes in the book as "the intellectual watering-hole of Aké and its environs." His memoir is filled with the poignant, often hilarious misadventures of a hyper-energetic young boy, but toward the end the narrative takes a decidedly intense turn. Soyinka becomes involved in and inspired by both Nigeria's fight for independence and the revolt against a tax on women that his mother leads. In Aké, Soyinka writes, "I sensed the beginning of an unusual event and was gripped by the excitement." The author admits that his lifelong political activism has its roots in his childhood. He describes the tax revolt as "the earliest event I remember in which I was really caught up in a wave of activism and understood the principles involved. Young as I was, it all took place around me, discussions took place around me, and I knew what forces were involved. But even before [the tax revolt], I'd listened to elders talking, and I used to read the newspapers on my father's desk. This was a period of anti-colonial fervor, so the entire anti-colonial training was something I imbibed quite early, even before the women's movement."

22. Wole Soyinka -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
    Britannica online encyclopedia article on wole soyinka Nigerian playwright and political activist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.  
    http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9068955
    
    Extractions: document.writeln(''); document.writeln('Initializing application...'); Username Password Remember me Forgot your password? Search Site: born July 13, 1934, Abeokuta, Nigeria Nigerian playwright and political activist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. He sometimes wrote of modern West Africa in a satirical style, but his serious intent and his belief in the evils inherent in the exercise of power usually was evident in his work as well. A member of the Yoruba people, Soyinka attended Government College and University College in Ibadan before graduating in 1958 with a degree in English from the University of Leeds in England. Upon his return to Nigeria, he founded an acting company and wrote his first important play, A Dance of the Forests (produced 1960; published 1963), for the Nigerian independence celebrations. The play satirizes the fledgling nation by stripping it of romantic legend and by showing that the present is no more a golden age than was the past. He wrote several plays in a lighter vein, making fun of pompous, Westernized schoolteachers in

23. Wole Soyinka Study Guide
    wole soyinka (born Akinwande Oluwole soyinka in 1934) is Africa s most distinguished playwright, winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986.  
    http://www.wsu.edu:8001/~brians/anglophone/soyinka.html
    
    Extractions: Using this Guide Wole Soyinka (born Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka in 1934) is Africa's most distinguished playwright, winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. A Yoruba, he studied first at the University College of Ibadan, then at Leeds University in England, where he came under the influence of the brilliant Shakespeare scholar G. Wilson Knight. The fifties were a period of great experimentation in the theater, both in France and England, and Soyinka was involved with various productions in Great Britain before returning to Nigeria, having been commissioned to write a play to celebrate that nation's independence in 1960 ( A Dance of the Forests). It was a lyrical blend of Western experimentalism and African folk tradition, reflecting a highly original approach to drama. He has always emphasized his African roots, dubbing his early theater troupe "Masks," to acknowledge the role Yoruba pageantry has played in his work. From the beginning he was a political figure, During the Nigerian Civil War he was not sufficiently anti-Biafran to suit the government and was put into solitary confinement for two years, being released only after an intense international campaign. This experience is movingly recounted in his book, A Man Died.

24. Soyinka
    The first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1986), wole soyinka has established himself as one of the most compelling literary forces on the  
    http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/soyinka.htm
    
    Extractions: The first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1986), Wole Soyinka has established himself as one of the most compelling literary forces on the continent. Born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1934, he is often regarded as a universal man: poet, playwright, novelist, critic, lecturer, teacher, actor, translator, politician, and publisher. Soyinka's writing "blends African with European cultural traditions, the high seriousness of modernist elite literature, and the topicality of African popular theater." His early poetry, which can be found in one of the first issues of BlackOrpheus and in A Shuttle in the Crypt (1971), resulted from his imprisonment during the Nigerian Civil War. His powerful prison diary, The Man Died (1972) was published after his release. Soyinka is actively committed to social justice and he has been an outspoken, daring public figure deeply engaged in the main political issues of his country and Africa, and he has become a symbol for humane values throughout the continent. Soyinka's hallmark is his dramatic work: "His plays are shaped by myth and imagery and the narratives move back and forth in time. The events are powerful, the language filled with puns and witty wordplay, references, and allusions. Soyinka has an excellent sense of dramatic rhythm and visual theater." See Kongi's Harvest ADance of the Forest The Road , and Death and the King's Horseman .(PM) A Dance of the Forest . 1963. London: Oxford University Press.

25. BBC/OU Open2.net - Reith Lectures 2004: The Climate Of Fear
    Want to know more about wole soyinka, his work and The Climate of Fear? Reith lecturer wole soyinka draws parallels between Bush and Bin Laden a case  
    http://www.open2.net/reith2004/
    
    Extractions: @import "http://www.open2.net/open2static/tv_viewer3.css"; @import "http://www.open2.net/open2static/generic_includes.css"; skip to main content Search You Are Here: Home Programmes / Reith Lectures 2004: The Climate of Fear In 2004, our expert Lynda Morgan provided a guide to Nigerian writer and activist Wole Soyinka's Climate of Fear lectures. Against the backdrop of the 'War on Terror,' Soyinka explores the nature of fear and asks: What exactly are we afraid of? How can societies react to a morphing danfer and the changing mask of fear Is the world becoming a more dangerous place? The struggle for the future is a struggle between power and freedom Rhetoric is the weapon of political leader, while the written word is the refuge of the political prisoner. Decode rhetoric that binds and blinds Read more about this year's lecturer, Wole Soyinka, get summaries of each lecture, and learn about the history of the lectures with Reith 2004 on BBC Radio 4 In Soyinka's philosophy, freedom is central to a sense of dignity and all struggles are

26. Wole Soyinka - UNESCO Celebrity Advocates | UNESCO.org
    The Nigerian Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature wole soyinka is also President of the International Writers’ Parliament. In 1994 he was designated UNESCO  
    http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=8329&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.h
    
    Extractions: As one of the most eminent intellectuals of the African continent, Wole Soyinka’s struggle for the defence of freedom of speech and human rights has been ongoing ever since he began his literary career. Wole Soyinka is an active participant in high-level conferences and forums addressing the issues of African social development. From 15 to 16 March 2006, UNESCO Headquarters in Paris was the venue for an impressive gathering of the Organization’s Goodwill Ambassadors. The 2006 Annual Meeting of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors, convened by the Director-General, brought together a large number of these outstanding personalities, who come from the worlds of art, film, music, literature, charity and public affairs. More

27. Seattle Arts & Lectures - Wole Soyinka
    For wole soyinka (born Akinwande Oluwole soyinka in 1934), an artist and an activist, writing and politics are interwoven. He traces his political awakening  
    http://www.lectures.org/soyinka.html
    
    Extractions: In 1986, Soyinka won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His best known plays, written in English and performed mainly in West Africa and Europe, include and The Lion and the Jewel. His non-fiction books include The Burden of Memory, The Muse of Forgiveness, The Open Sore of a Continent, and the beautifully crafted memoir Ake: The Years of Childhood. Soyinka is currently the Woodruff Professor of the Arts at Emory University in Atlanta and a Fellow of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard. Excerpt taken from A Dance of the Forests

28. Isokan Yoruba Magazine: Wole Soyinka On Yoruba Religion
    wole soyinka on Yoruba Religion. A conversation with Ulli Beier. Beier I wanted to talk to you about Yoruba religion, because you seem to be the only  
    http://www.yoruba.org/Magazine/Summer97/File3.htm
    
    Extractions: Volume III No. III: Wole Soyinka on Yoruba Religion A conversation with Ulli Beier Beier: I wanted to talk to you about Yoruba religion, because you seem to be the only writer who has seriously tried to come to terms with it. Even many of the Yoruba scholars, who do research into language, literature, history of the Yoruba shy away from the subject - as if they were embarrassed about it ... Now in your own case, given the type of upbringing you had, I have asked myself how you became interested in Yoruba religion. There is an image "Ake", that has made a very strong impression on me. You were living in the Christian school compound, that was surrounded by a high wall and when the Egungun masqueraders were passing by outside, you had to ask somebody to lift you onto the ladder, so that you could watch the procession going on outside. Your upbringing was designed to shield you from the realities of Yoruba life ... and later on your education in the Grammar school, the University in England - they all were designed to take you further away from the core of your culture. How then did you find your way back into it? How did you manage to break the wall that had been built up around you?

29. Soyinka And The Nigerian Civil War
    wole soyinka s A Shuttle in the Crypt contemplates a critical period in Nigerian history between 1966 and early 1971. soyinka s efforts to curtail the  
    http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/post/nigeria/civilwar.html
    
    Extractions: Wole Soyinka 's A Shuttle in the Crypt contemplates a critical period in Nigerian history between 1966 and early 1971. Soyinka's efforts to curtail the Nigerian Civil War in 1967 resulted in his arrest and imprisonment without trial by the federal military government. Soyinka's work remains inseparable from his activities as a political dissident. His commitment to promoting human rights in Nigeria and other nations reflects his new approach to literature as a serious agent of social change. A Shuttle in the Crypt chronicles Soyinka's twenty-five month experience of solitary confinement with its accompanying horrors and dangers. His poems typify the renewed political concern of the African writer as a critic of societies which promote human degradation. Soyinka denigrates Africa's past while warning his people to redirect their energies in order to avoid the demoralization and purposeless cruelty which characterize contemporary Nigeria. A comprehension of the inner reality of Soyinka's experience as a political prisoner requires understanding historical events, including Nigeria's military convention and ensuing civil war. Political antagonisms and increasing corruption characterized the first government of independent Nigeria. The establishment of the Midwest Region irritated many Yoruba of the Western Region, including Soyinka. Disagreements between Awolowo of the AG and regional Premier Samuel Akintola paralyzed the Western Region where central authorities assumed control for ten months. Representatives of the federal government charged Awolowo and other Yoruba leaders with treason in 1962 and sentenced them to fifteen years in prison. On January 14, 1966, the federal government proclaimed martial law as a solution to Nigeria's problems. The overthrow of the federal government resulted in the mass violence which Soyinka sharply attacked, including the murders of Prime Minister Balewa, Akintola, and the sardauna of Sokoto.

30. FRONTLINE/WORLD . NIGERIA - The Road North . Thoughts Of A Favorite Son: Intervi
    Thoughts of a Favorite Son Interview With wole soyinka, Nigeria s Nobel Prize When wole soyinka, Nigeria s Nobel Prizewinning author and playwright,  
    http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/nigeria/soyinka.html
    
    Extractions: When Wole Soyinka, Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winning author and playwright, heard that rioting had broken out in his country last November, he got on an airplane and headed home. Soyinka, among Africa's best-known writers, spent years in detention and was sentenced to death in absentia by Nigeria's military government in 1997. He cut short a trip to Canada to return to Nigeria, he says, in order to "make sure that the secular voice does not get drowned or intimidated by the arrogance of bureaucratic forces." He spoke with FRONTLINE/World' s Jessie Deeter in December 2002. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

31. Wole Soyinka - Authors - Random House
    In this new book developed from the prestigious Reith Lectures, Nobel Prize—winning author wole soyinka, a courageous advocate for human rights around the  
    http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=29176

32. Soyinka -- "Telephone Conversation"
    wole soyinka. (b.1934). Telephone Conversation . The price seemed reasonable, location; Indifferent. The landlady swore she lived; Off premises.  
    http://www.k-state.edu/english/westmank/spring_00/SOYINKA.html
    
    Extractions: Wole Soyinka (b.1934) "Telephone Conversation" The price seemed reasonable, location Indifferent. The landlady swore she lived Off premises. Nothing remained But self-confession. "Madam," I warned, "I hate a wasted journeyI am African." Silence. Silenced transmission of Pressurized good-breeding. Voice, when it came, Lipstick coated, long gold-rolled Cigarette-holder pipped. Caught I was foully. "HOW DARK?" . . . I had not misheard . . . "ARE YOU LIGHT OR VERY DARK?" Button B, Button A. Stench Of rancid breath of public hide-and-speak. Red booth. Red pillar box. Red double-tiered Omnibus squelching tar. It was real! Shamed By ill-mannered silence, surrender Pushed dumbfounded to beg simplification. Considerate she was, varying the emphasis "ARE YOU DARK? OR VERY LIGHT?" Revelation came. "You meanlike plain or milk chocolate?" Her assent was clinical, crushing in its light Impersonality. Rapidly, wave-length adjusted, I chose. "West African sepia"and as afterthought, "Down in my passport." Silence for spectroscopic

33. 10 Questions For Wole Soyinka - TIME
    The prolific author and playwright talks about his new memoir and the political situation in Nigeria.  
    http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901060626-1205325,00.html
    
    Extractions: var s_account="timecom"; Time.com CNN.com Search Archive Sunday, Jun. 18, 2006 By ANDREW PURVIS AND REVINE WOSNITZA Wole Soyinka FRANCOIS MORI / AP Article Tools Print Email Reprints Sphere addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; addthis_pub = 'timecom'; RSS Wole Soyinka, 71, was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1986. The author of some 20 plays, seven novels and several collections of poetry, he has also been an outspoken critic of Nigerian despots since the 1960s and mediated between indigenous people and oil companies in the Niger Delta. His latest work, a memoir, is titled You Must Set Forth at Dawn . Last week, he met Time's Andrew Purvis and Regine Wosnitza in Berlin. Why did you decide to write a new memoir and what have you learned from it? That is a good question. Certainly I did not want to write this memoir in the way it turned out. But that is the problem with writers. I learned never to write your biography beyond the age of innocence and that is about 11.

34. Why I Am A Secular Humanist
    As long as there have been dictatorial military regimes in Nigeria, writer wole soyinka has spoken out against them. Championing democracy over the last 30  
    http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/soyinka_17_4.html
    
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35. Nobel Prize Writer Wole Soyinka Visits
    wole soyinka, the first African writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1986), will be at Washington State University February 34, 2005.  
    http://world-class.wsu.edu/2005/wole-soyinka/index.html
    
    Extractions: Photograph by Isabelle Levy Wole Soyinka, the first African writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1986), will be at Washington State University February 3-4, 2005. Soyinka's visit is in conjunction with the theatre department's presentation of Death and the King's Horseman , one of Soyinka's most celebrated works. The play is about the Yoruba, one of the three largest ethnic groups of Nigeria, and brings into sharp focus the differences between Western and African cultures. The panel discussion following the opening night performance will engage the audience in learning about another culture and help them better understand the differences between certain cultures and historical reasons for the continued existence of those differences. Soyinka is counted as one of contemporary Africa's greatest writers. He is also one of the continent's most creative advocates of native culture. At the center of his work is the idea of "organic revolution." He envisions a "New Africa," wherein native myth is reformulated in the context of contemporary reality and where ancient tradition melds with current technology, enabling escape from colonial past. Professor Soyinka's appearance provides a rare opportunity to experience African culture from his unique perspective as a native Yoruban Nigerian, dramatist, academic, literary critic, social/political activist, and exiled citizen.

36. The Writer And The Tyrant - The New York Review Of Books
    wole soyinka is a titan, not only in Nigeria and not only in Africa. Playwright and poet, novelist and pamphleteer, editor and autobiographer,  
    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19094
    
    Extractions: Home Your account Current issue Archives ... By Neal Ascherson You Must Set Forth at Dawn by Wole Soyinka Random House, 499 pp., $26.95 Wole Soyinka is a titan, not only in Nigeria and not only in Africa. Playwright and poet, novelist and pamphleteer, editor and autobiographer, cultural impresario and unofficial diplomat, democratic conspirator and ferocious, unappeasable warrior for justice, he has earned his Nobel Prize many times over. The world's good and great beg him to drop in for lunch. The people in the streets and villages of his own country call out to him as 'Prof' or 'Kongi,' and feel for a moment happy to be Nigerian. aj_server = 'http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/'; aj_tagver = '1.0'; aj_zone = 'nyrb'; aj_adspot = '292481'; aj_page = '0'; aj_dim ='147520'; aj_ch = ''; aj_ct = ''; aj_kw = ''; aj_pv = true; aj_click = ''; Review, 3975 words To read the full text of this piece, please choose one of the following options: If you are already a subscriber to the Review 's electronic edition , please sign in: To subscribe to the electronic edition , please press the button below.

37. Wole Soyinka - Biography
    wole soyinka was born near Abeokuta in Nigeria. He grew up in an Anglican mission compound in Ake. He attended the parsonage s primary school where his  
    http://www.literature-prize.com/wole_soyinka.htm
    
    Extractions: imlive Wole Soyinka - Biography Wole Soyinka was born near Abeokuta in Nigeria. He grew up in an Anglican mission compound in Ake. He attended the parsonage's primary school where his father was the headmaster, and then attended the grammar school in Abeokuta where his uncle was principal. When he was twelve, he left Ake for Ibadan to attend the Government College there. He entered Ibadan's new university when he was eighteen. Two years later he went to England to complete his degree in drama at Leeds. Following his graduation, he worked as a script-reader, actor, and director at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Upon his return to Ibadan he founded two theatre companies, one of which was called the 1960 Masks. It is now called the Orisun Theatre. His first important play, A DANCE OF FORESTS, was written for the Nigerian independence celebrations. Soyinka's works were met with criticism from all sides. They brought out hostility from Nigerian authorities as well as by proponents of pure "Negritude." His plays are written in English, but they incorporate the music, dance, and the words of the traditional Yoruban festivals. Soyinka's work openly criticizes the Nigerian government. He advocates an autonomous African culture which assimilates only those elements of the modern world which are progressive. He was imprisoned for two years on the charges that he aided the attempted secession of Biafra from Nigeria. While in prison he spent much of his time in solitary confinement. Upon his release he published a book of poetry, A SHUTTLE IN THE CRYPT, and one of his many autobiographies, THE MAN DIED: PRISON NOTES OF WOLE SOYINKA. He was later exiled from his home land for speaking out against the dictator, General Sani Abacha. The charges of treason were dropped when Abdulsalam Abubakar came into power.

38. .: Wole Soyinka On The Menace Of Cults In Nigerian Universities
    http//www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/uchenworah/wole-soyinka-on-the- menace-of-cults-in-nigerian-univers.html. 22 November 2007 0720  
    http://thelongharmattanseason.blogspot.com/2007/11/wole-soyinka-on-menace-of-cul
    
    Extractions: Posted by Uche Nworah at I consider the documentary very revealing. Well, as much as I do appreciate Soyinka's noble effort in producing it, I think the doc is rather propagandist. Soyinka, I strongly advise, should desist from creating different guises aimed at changing the psyche of the people about the widely held notion that he created (and sponsors) the societal scourge of cultism. He has always done, and done, and done this; giving lectures, home and abroad, about the difference between cultism and fraternity. If people are not ready to understand that he, alongside his colleagues, formed pyrates fraternity for a just course, they'd better go to hell. Moreover, I'd like to know your take on the documentary.

39. Wole Soyinka | Black Writers: Wole Soyinka | WGBH Forum Network | Free Online Le
    In 1986, wole soyinka became the first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. In plays, novels, and poems, he has chronicled the political  
    http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=1224

40. The God Of War Is My Muse - Telegraph
    The Nobel Prizewinning writer wole soyinka tells Helen Oyeyemi why literature wole soyinka is reflective enough to put gentle reins on his cynicism  
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/05/19/bowole119.xml

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