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Wole Soyinka

Birth date: July 13, 1934

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

Wole Soyinka's Books

Aké: The Years of Childhood - Wole Soyinka

You Must Set Forth at Dawn - Wole Soyinka

Death and the King's Horseman: A Play - Wole Soyinka

The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka - Wole Soyinka

Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology - Art Spiegelman, Wole Soyinka, Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hannah Arendt, Noam Chomsky, Eric Klinenberg, Theodora Kroeber, Joseph Conrad, Paul Farmer, Philip Gourevitch, Stephen R. Donaldson, Giorgio Agamben, Leon F. Litwack, Antjie Krog, Mahmood Mamdani, Frantz Fa

The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite - Wole Soyinka

The Lion and the Jewel (Three Crowns Book) - Wole Soyinka

King Baabu: (A Play In The Manner Roughly Of Alfred Jarry) - Wole Soyinka

Forest of A Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga - D.O. Fagunwa, Wole Soyinka, Bruce Onobrakpeya

Mandela's Earth and Other Poems - Wole S...

Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World - Wole Soyinka

Omnibus: "Ake", "Season of Anomy" - Wole...

Three Short Plays (Three Crowns) - Wole Soyinka

The Blackman And The Veil: A Century On (W.E.B. Du Bois Padmore Nkrumah Pan African Lectures Series) - Wole Soyinka

Soyinka - Wole Soyinka

Myth, Literature and the African World (Canto) - Wole Soyinka

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Bettie's Books rated it

11 years ago

text Death and the King's Horseman: A Play by Wole Soyinka

bookshelves: nobel-laureate, play-dramatisation, radio-3, published-1975, afr-nigeria, lifestyles-deathstyles, lit-richer, summer-2014, tragedy, colonial-overlords Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from July 12 to 14, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...

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Rowena's Reviews rated it

12 years ago

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“Traveller, you must set forthAt dawnI promise marvels of the holy hour…” - Wole SoyinkaI knew a little bit about Soyinka, about the problems he'd encountered politically in Nigeria, which led to his exile. However, I had NO idea how crazy his experiences had actually been! Talk about intrigue! I'm ...

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Lizreader's Blog rated it

12 years ago

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I liked this play probably for different reasons then most people read it. I like how he is using this play as a communication with the audience, and where dance and music play an integral part to the overall structure. The diction is good, as well as the characters.

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