Wole Soyinda Bücher
Ausgezeichnet mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur für sein Werk, das "in einer breiten kulturellen Perspektive und mit poetischen Obertönen das Drama der Existenz gestaltet". Seine Schriften befassen sich mit den tiefgreifenden Fragen des Lebens mit einem lyrischen und einsichtsvollen Ansatz.
More than a major figure in the world of literature, Wole Soyinka is a courageous voice for human rights, democracy, and freedom. This work presents a chronicle of his thrilling public life, a meditation on justice and tyranny, and a mesmerising testament to a ravaged yet hopeful land.
Contemporary African Plays
- 382 Seiten
- 14 Lesestunden
The plays included in this volume are: Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka; Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo; The Chattering and the Song by Femo Osofisan; The Rise and SHine of Comrade Fiasco by Andrew Whalley; Woza Albert! by Percy Mtwa, et al; and The Other War by Alemseged Tesfai.
Isara
- 240 Seiten
- 9 Lesestunden
Two years after writing his celebrated childhood autobiography Ake, Wole Soyinka opened a tin box that had belonged to his father. The simple contents of this box provide the fuel for Isara the second instalment of Soyinka's memoirs. schovat popis
Ibadan
- 397 Seiten
- 14 Lesestunden
The third volume in Soyinka's series of memoirs, the sequel to Ake and Isara. In a mixture of fact and fiction - to protect the innocent and nail the guilty and shape an often intolerable reality - it tells of the coming of age of a writer and political activist; and of a nation's betrayal. schovat popis
Set in Nigeria, amid the scenes of everyday racketeering and general disquiet, the police try to clear the area of undesirables, as a traditional wedding between two illustrious and ambitious families is about to take place. This play is by Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka.