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A Nobel Prize-winning playwright's classic tale of tragic decisions in a traditional African culture.

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Wole Soyinka's account of his early childhood and boyhood in Nigeria in the 1930s. The chronicle ends with a child's excited view of the Women's ... More

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The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Soyinka now follows his modern ... More

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Madmen and Specialists is one of Soyinka's most excoriating portrayals of abusers and abused in the new Nigeria ushered in by Biafra. Set in the ... More

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This is one of the best-known plays by Africa's major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. It is set in the Yoruba village of Ilunjinle. The main characters are ... More

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The events that led up to dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa's execution in 1995 marked Nigeria's decline from a post-colonial success story to its ... More

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In this new book developed from the prestigious Reith Lectures, Nobel Prize--winning author Wole Soyinka, a courageous advocate for human rights ... More

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Winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, this Nigerian poet, playwright, and novelist writes of the rich cultural traditions as well as the ... More

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A wholly fresh interpretation of the timeless play by a Nobel Prize-winning author.

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This book focuses on how theatre can make and has made positive political and social interventions.

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Never less than profound, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka's fierce and provocative contribution to the debate on multiculturalism brings together 19 ... More

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These hilarious and vicious two plays examine the corruption of Nigerian society through a study of the rise and fall of one of its self-made ... More

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The Nobel Prize-winning African writer, Wole Soyinka, was imprisoned without trial by the federal authorities at the start of the Nigerian Civil War. ... More

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A new collection of poetry from a Nobel-prize winning author. Written during a period of enforced exile from his native Nigeria, these poems offer a ... More

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This elegantly haunting work of fiction features bookstore owner Boualem Yekker, who lives in a country overtaken by a radically conservative party ... More

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From the first African Nobel Laureate, this is the first in a series of Olufosoye Annual Lectures on Religions, delivered at the University of Ibadan ... More

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The 1986 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature--the first African to be awarded the prize--writes a highly incisive and deeply affecting re ... More

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Describes a group of young Nigerian intellectuals trying to do something worthwhile with their lives in a society ruled by corruption, cynicism, ... More

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Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa.

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