Wole Soyinda Libri
Premiato con il Premio Nobel per la Letteratura per la sua opera che, in un'ampia prospettiva culturale e con toni poetici, modella il dramma dell'esistenza. La sua scrittura esplora le profonde questioni della vita con un approccio lirico e acuto.
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
- 382pagine
- 14 ore di lettura
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
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
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
- 397pagine
- 14 ore di lettura
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.