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| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: The Lion and the Jewel Wole Soyinka, 1973 |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: You Must Set Forth at Dawn Wole Soyinka, 2007-12-18 The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, beleaguered homeland. In the tough, humane, and lyrical language that has typified his plays and novels, Soyinka captures the indomitable spirit of Nigeria itself by bringing to life the friends and family who bolstered and inspired him, and by describing the pioneering theater works that defied censure and tradition. Soyinka not only recounts his exile and the terrible reign of General Sani Abacha, but shares vivid memories and playful anecdotes–including his improbable friendship with a prominent Nigerian businessman and the time he smuggled a frozen wildcat into America so that his students could experience a proper Nigerian barbecue. More than a major figure in the world of literature, Wole Soyinka is a courageous voice for human rights, democracy, and freedom. You Must Set Forth at Dawn is an intimate chronicle of his thrilling public life, a meditation on justice and tyranny, and a mesmerizing testament to a ravaged yet hopeful land. |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: The Road Wole Soyinka, 1965 |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Season of Anomy Wole Soyinka, 2021-09-14 From the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our fiercest political activists—this political novel about the dangers of corruption, greed, and the desire for power is the follow-up to his acclaimed debut novel The Interpreters. An African nation's struggle for independence is interwoven with a tragic love story in this compelling novel. When Ofeyi, who writes advertising jingles for the Cocoa Corporation, is sent on a promotional tour of his unnamed country, he arrives at a coastal village whose remote location has long kept it insulated from the corrupt national government. Here Ofeyi discovers a traditional way of life that is still flourishing and he is inspired to spread its life-affirming values to his suffering country. But challenging the forces of greed and exploitation provokes a horrific response, and when Ofeyi’s beloved wife goes missing, he must travel across a war-scarred landscape in search of her. Infusing the myth of Orpheus with his signature lyricism and moral profundity, Soyinka creates a dazzling story about the clash between idealism and reality. |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: The Winslow Boy Terence Rattigan, 1973 THE STORY: What begins as a small incident ultimately grows into a cause celebre nearly shaking the foundations of the government. The incident is simply that of a youngster in an English government school who is expelled for an alleged theft. As |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth Wole Soyinka, 2021-09-28 'Soyinka's greatest novel ... No one else can write such a book' - Ben Okri 'A high-jinks state-of-the-nation novel' - Chibundu Onuzo A FINANCIAL TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR A towering figure in world literature, Wole Soyinka aims directly at the corridors of power as he warns against corruption both of high office and of the soul, with a dazzling lightness of touch and gleeful irreverence. Much to Doctor Menka's horror, some cunning entrepreneur has decided to sell body parts from his hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Already at the end of his tether from the horrors he routinely sees in surgery, he shares this latest development with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne, who has never before met a puzzle he couldn't solve. Neither realise how close the enemy is, nor how powerful. Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is at once a savagely witty whodunit, a scathing indictment of Nigeria's political elite, and a provocative call to arms from one of the country's most relentless political activists and an international literary giant. MORE PRAISE FOR WOLE SOYINKA: 'You don't see the things the same when you encounter a voice like that' - Toni Morrison 'One of the best there is today, a poet and a thinker, who knows both how the world works and how the world should work' - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: The Beatification of Area Boy Wole Soyinka, 1999 |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Scarlet Song Mariama Bâ, 1994 Cultural differences between the families of Mireille, daughter of a French diplomat, and Ousmane, son of a poor Muslim family in Senegal, threatens to destroy their marriage.--Amazon.com viewed Dec. 12, 2022. |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Collected Plays Wole Soyinka, 1973 `The Lion and the Jewel alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' The Times The ironic development and consequences of `progress' may be traced through both the themes and the tone of the works included in this second volume of Wole Soyinka's plays. The Lion and the Jewel shows an ineffectual assault on past tradition soundly defeated. In Kongi's Harvest, however, the pretensions of Kongi's regime are also fatal. The denouement points the way forward. The two Brother Jero plays pursue that way, the comic `propheteering' of the earlier play giving way to the sardonic reality of Jero's Metamorphosis. Madmen and Specialists, Soyinka's most pessimistic play, concerns the physical, mental, and moral destruction of modern civil war. |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Kongi's Harvest. (11. Impr.) Wole Soyinka, 1979 |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness Wole Soyinka, 1998-12-03 Nobel Laureate in Literature Wole Soyinka considers all of Africa--indeed, all the world--as he poses this question: once repression stops, is reconciliation between oppressor and victim possible? In the face of centuries-long devastation wrought on the African continent and her Diaspora by slavery, colonialism, Apartheid, and the manifold faces of racism, what form of recompense could possibly suffice? In a voice as eloquent and humane as it is forceful, Soyinka boldly challenges in these pages the notions of simple forgiveness, confession, and absolution as strategies for social healing. Ultimately, he turns to art--poetry, music, painting, etc.--as the one source that can nourish the seed of reconciliation: art is the generous vessel that can hold together the burden of memory and the hope of forgiveness. Based on Soyinka's Stewart-McMillan lectures delivered at the DuBois Institute at Harvard, The Burden of Memory speaks not only to those concerned specifically with African politics, but also to anyone seeking the path to social justice through some of history's most inhospitable terrain. |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Second-class Citizen Buchi Emecheta, 1994 Adah, a woman from the Ibo tribe, moves to England to live with her Nigerian student husband. She soon discovers that life for a young Nigerian woman living in London in the 1960s is grim. Rejected by British society and thwarted by her husband, who expects her to be subservient to him, she is forced to face up to life as a second-class citizen.--Back cover |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Wole Soyinka Obi Maduakor, 1986 |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Eurydice Sarah Ruhl, 2010-02-25 An inventive take on the classic myth, Eurydice is by the highly-acclaimed US playwright Sarah Ruhl and includes magical, dreamlike surrealism, lyrical beauty and heart-rending pathos. Eurydice is in love with Orpheus. Her dead father has advice for her wedding but his letters can't get through to the land of the living. At last one does. With her father's words in her hand, she crashes down a flight of stairs and wakes in the underworld, her memory wiped. How will she ever get home? With a style that is light and precise, but also wildly imaginative, this play sees Alice in Wonderland meet Greek myth. Eurydice is a playful and highly original take on a timeless tale of loss, grief and redemption. When she received her MacArthur Foundation 'genius' grant, she was given this verdict: Sarah Ruhl, 32, playwright, New York City. Playwright creating vivid and adventurous theatrical works that poignantly juxtapose the mundane aspects of daily life with mythic themes of love and war. |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Assassins Nicholas Mosley, 1997 As one of the characters in Assassins says, Tolstoy was right, you can't beat the Gods. It's the small things - the warp and woof - that make up the pattern. And how much influence do we have over the small? Now that's a theme for a modern writer. And Nicholas Mosley is this writer. Part political thriller and part love story, Assassins explores the small things that give shape and meaning to the big events. |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Madmen and Specialists Wole Soyinka, 1987-09-01 An African playwright reveals his thoughts on man's betrayal of his vocation for power in this drama |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: A Study Guide for Wole Soyinka's "Death and the King's Horsemen" Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016 A Study Guide for Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horsemen, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs. |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Isarà , 1991 |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe, 1994-09-01 “A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities. |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: The Stone Angel Margaret Laurence, 2015-07-22 The Stone Angel, The Diviners, and A Bird in the House are three of the five books in Margaret Laurence's renowned Manawaka series, named for the small Canadian prairie town in which they take place. Each of these books is narrated by a strong woman growing up in the town and struggling with physical and emotional isolation. In The Stone Angel, Hagar Shipley, age ninety, tells the story of her life, and in doing so tries to come to terms with how the very qualities which sustained her have deprived her of joy. Mingling past and present, she maintains pride in the face of senility, while recalling the life she led as a rebellious young bride, and later as a grieving mother. Laurence gives us in Hagar a woman who is funny, infuriating, and heartbreakingly poignant. This is a revelation, not impersonation. The effect of such skilled use of language is to lead the reader towards the self-recognition that Hagar misses.—Robertson Davies, New York Times It is [Laurence's] admirable achievement to strike, with an equally sure touch, the peculiar note and the universal; she gives us a portrait of a remarkable character and at the same time the picture of old age itself, with the pain, the weariness, the terror, the impotent angers and physical mishaps, the realization that others are waiting and wishing for an end.—Honor Tracy, The New Republic Miss Laurence is the best fiction writer in the Dominion and one of the best in the hemisphere.—Atlantic [Laurence] demonstrates in The Stone Angel that she has a true novelist's gift for catching a character in mid-passion and life at full flood. . . . As [Hagar Shipley] daydreams and chatters and lurches through the novel, she traces one of the most convincing—and the most touching—portraits of an unregenerate sinner declining into senility since Sara Monday went to her reward in Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth.—Time Laurence's triumph is in her evocation of Hagar at ninety. . . . We sympathize with her in her resistance to being moved to a nursing home, in her preposterous flight, in her impatience in the hospital. Battered, depleted, suffering, she rages with her last breath against the dying of the light. The Stone Angel is a fine novel, admirably written and sustained by unfailing insight.—Granville Hicks, Saturday Review The Stone Angel is a good book because Mrs. Laurence avoids sentimentality and condescension; Hagar Shipley is still passionately involved in the puzzle of her own nature. . . . Laurence's imaginative tact is strikingly at work, for surely this is what it feels like to be old.—Paul Pickrel, Harper's |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: The Truthful Lie Biodun Jeyifo, 1985 |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Modern African Drama Biodun Jeyifo, 2002 Presents eight twentieth-century plays from seven African countries, along with explanatory notes and over thirty background writings and works of criticism. |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: The Concubine Elechi Amadi, 2017-04-26 Amadi’s masterpiece of African literature captures village life and practices not yet touched by the white man. The novel’s beautiful, hardworking protagonist, Ihouma, is admired by all in her village. Yet those who express their love for her meet with mysterious tragedy, leaving her devastated. This enticing odyssey, where exemplary attributes go unrewarded and the boundaries between myth and reality are muted, outwits readers with unexpected twists that make them want to keep turning the page. |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Smithereens of Death Olubunmi Familoni, 2015 |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Soyinka Wole Soyinka, Martin Banham, Chuck Mike, Judith Greenwood, 2005 |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Ambiguous Adventure Hamidou Kane, 1963 A modern African political revolutionary discovers that he is neither black nor white, African nor French, but a cultural hybrid who does not even recognize himself. Samba Diallo, a simple revolutionary, attempts to win political freedom for his country by ridding it of despotism. Along the way he discovers that his integrity - and that of Africa - is threatened by the very attractiveness of the alien culture which he seeks to overcome. - Cover text. |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Doomi Golo--The Hidden Notebooks Boubacar Boris Diop, 2016 |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Oil Man of Obange John Munonye, 1971 The main character of this book is subjected to a grinding series of tragedies which gradually break this small man. By the author of The Only Son and Bridge to a Wedding. |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Indare and Other Poems Wole Soyinka, 1987-09-01 A selection of poetry discussing political tensions and Africa's cultural traditions. Also includes an adaptation of the creation myth of Ogun, the Yoruba God of Iron. |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Ned Kelly Douglas STEWART, 2003 |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: A Grain of Wheat Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1968 In this ambitious and densely worked novel, we begin to see early signs of Ngugi's increasing bitterness about the ways in which the politicians are the true benefactors of the rewards of independence. |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: The Norton Anthology of World Literature Martin Puchner, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Wiebke Denecke, Barbara Fuchs, Caroline Levine, Pericles Lewis, Emily R. Wilson, 2018 An unmatched value and an incomparable resource |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: The Metaphysics of Modern Existence Vine Deloria, 1979 |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: The Craft of Dying, 40th Anniversary Edition Lyn H. Lofland, 2019-04-23 The fortieth-anniversary edition of a classic and prescient work on death and dying. Much of today's literature on end-of-life issues overlooks the importance of 1970s social movements in shaping our understanding of death, dying, and the dead body. This anniversary edition of Lyn Lofland's The Craft of Dying begins to repair this omission. Lofland identifies, critiques, and theorizes 1970s death movements, including the Death Acceptance Movement, the Death with Dignity Movement, and the Natural Death movement. All these groups attempted to transform death into a “positive experience,” anticipating much of today's death and dying activism. Lofland turns a sociologist's eye on the era's increased interest in death, considering, among other things, the components of the modern “face of death” and the “craft of dying,” the construction of a dying role or identity by those who are dying, and the constraints on their freedom to do this. Lofland wrote just before the AIDS epidemic transformed the landscape of death and dying in the West; many of the trends she identified became the building blocks of AIDS activism in the 1980s and 1990s. The Craft of Dying will help readers understand contemporary death social movements' historical relationships to questions of race, class, gender, and sexuality and is a book that everyone interested in end-of-life politics should read. |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Soyinka Plays: 2 Wole Soyinka, 1999-02-04 'Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest' - New York Times Book Review A Play of Giants is a savage satire on some of the best-known dictators of our time (including Idi Amin); it brings together a group of dictatorial African leaders at bay in an embassy in New York attempting to make decisions together. Its theatrical predecessors include: Genet's The Balcony and Brecht's Arturo Ui. From Zia with Love and A Scourge of Hyacinths; When the Military decrees that a crime carrying a prison sentence now retroactively warrants summary execution, confusion and fear permeate a society where the brutality and injustice of military rule is parodied by life inside prison - based on events in Nigeria in the early 1980s Wole Soyinka's stage play From Zia with Love and radio play A Scourge of Hyacinths, were produced in the early 90s. |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: The blinkards Kobina Sekyi, 1982 |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: The Strong Breed Wole Soyinka, 1970 |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: The Gods Are Not to Blame Ola Rotimi, 2025-04-19 |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: In the Forest of Olodumare D. O. Fagunwa, 2010 |
| soyinka death and the king's horseman summary: Ake Wole Soyinka, 2008-07-10 The Nigerian playwright, poet, and novelist recounts his first eleven years growing up under the influence of his parents, traditional Yoruba customs, and Christian missionaries |
Wole Soyinka - Wikipedia
Wole Soyinka GCON, [a] (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian author, best known as a playwright and poet. He has written three novels, ten collections of short stories, seven poetry collections, …
Wole Soyinka | Biography, Plays, Books, Nobel Prize, Famous …
May 29, 2025 · Wole Soyinka (born July 13, 1934, Abeokuta, Nigeria) is a Nigerian playwright and political activist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
Wole Soyinka: Biography, Playwright, Activist, Nobel Prize Winner
Aug 16, 2023 · Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet, author, teacher and political activist. In 1986, he became the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Soyinka: June 12, Presidency Bid, & Democracy - Punch Newspapers
2 days ago · Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has disclosed that he almost joined the presidential race following the June 12 pro-democracy struggle. He, however, said he …
The Man - Wole Soyinka Online
Wole Soyinka was born in Nigeria and educated in England. In 1986, the playwright and political activist became the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. He dedicated his …
Wole Soyinka - PEN America
A Yoruba born in Western Nigeria and educated in Ibadan and the University of Leeds in England, Wole Soyinka was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on a Lifetime of Art and Activism
Oct 19, 2023 · Born in 1934 in Abeokuta, in the forested land of the Yoruba region of southwestern Nigeria, he was the first African writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in …
Wole Soyinka – Biographical - NobelPrize.org
During the civil war in Nigeria, Soyinka appealed in an article for cease-fire. For this he was arrested in 1967, accused of conspiring with the Biafra rebels, and was held as a political …
Soyinka warns against trivialising June 12 struggle
2 days ago · Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has cautioned against any attempt to trivialise or distort the deep significance and sacrifices of the June 12 pro-democracy struggle. Soyinka, …
About Wole Soyinka - Wole Soyinka Lecture Series
Wole Soyinka was born on 13th July 1934 near Abeokuta, Nigeria. He attended Government College, Ibadan, University College Ibadan (where this organization was formed) and …
Wole Soyinka - Wikipedia
Wole Soyinka GCON, [a] (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian author, best known as a playwright and poet. He has written three novels, ten collections of short stories, seven poetry collections, …
Wole Soyinka | Biography, Plays, Books, Nobel Prize, Famous …
May 29, 2025 · Wole Soyinka (born July 13, 1934, Abeokuta, Nigeria) is a Nigerian playwright and political activist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
Wole Soyinka: Biography, Playwright, Activist, Nobel Prize Winner
Aug 16, 2023 · Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet, author, teacher and political activist. In 1986, he became the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Soyinka: June 12, Presidency Bid, & Democracy - Punch Newspapers
2 days ago · Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has disclosed that he almost joined the presidential race following the June 12 pro-democracy struggle. He, however, said he …
The Man - Wole Soyinka Online
Wole Soyinka was born in Nigeria and educated in England. In 1986, the playwright and political activist became the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. He dedicated his …
Wole Soyinka - PEN America
A Yoruba born in Western Nigeria and educated in Ibadan and the University of Leeds in England, Wole Soyinka was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on a Lifetime of Art and Activism
Oct 19, 2023 · Born in 1934 in Abeokuta, in the forested land of the Yoruba region of southwestern Nigeria, he was the first African writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in …
Wole Soyinka – Biographical - NobelPrize.org
During the civil war in Nigeria, Soyinka appealed in an article for cease-fire. For this he was arrested in 1967, accused of conspiring with the Biafra rebels, and was held as a political …
Soyinka warns against trivialising June 12 struggle
2 days ago · Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has cautioned against any attempt to trivialise or distort the deep significance and sacrifices of the June 12 pro-democracy struggle. Soyinka, …
About Wole Soyinka - Wole Soyinka Lecture Series
Wole Soyinka was born on 13th July 1934 near Abeokuta, Nigeria. He attended Government College, Ibadan, University College Ibadan (where this organization was formed) and …
