Dramas written by professor wole soyinka biography
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Wole Soyinka
A Dance of the Forests
Oxford University Press
London u.a., 1963
Idanre and Other Poems
Methuen
London, 1967
Kongi’s Harvest
Oxford University Press
London u.a., 1967
The Trials of Brother Jero
Oxford University Press
Nairobi u.a., 1969
Poems from Prison
Collings
London, 1969
Madmen and Specialists
Methuen
London, 1971
A Shuttle in the Crypt
Methuen
London, 1972
Der Löwe und die Perle
Volk und Welt
Berlin, 1973
[Ü: Helmut Heinrich]
Death and the King’s Horseman
Methuen
London, 1975
Ogun Abibiman
Collings
London, 1976
Myth, Literature and the African World
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge, 1976
Die Plage der tollwütigen Hunde
Walter
Olten, 1979
[Ü: Wolfgang Strauss]
Die Ausleger
Walter
Olten, 1983
[Ü: Inge Uffelmann]
A Play of Giants
Methuen
London, 1984
Requiem for a Futurologist
Collings
London, 1985
Aké
Ammann
Zürich, 1986
[Ü: Inge Uffelmann]
Der Mann ist tot. Aufzeichnungen aus dem Gefängnis
Ammann
Zürich, 19
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7 Wole Soyinka Plays That Feel Like They Were Written Today
Though Soyinka wrote this play to be performed at the Nigerian independence celebrations in 1960, he had more critical intentions than mere mindless celebrations. Beyond jubilations about the newly gained independence, Soyinka took the opportunity to sound a note of varning to Nigerian and African leaders: do not repeat the mistakes of the past.
A Dance of the Forests presents a cyclical world in which political patterns are repeated through history. In the first part, we meet a host of characters—Demoke, Rola, Adenebi, Agboreko, Dead Man, Dead Woman—unwittingly bound bygd their past lives. In the present, the first four meet in a forest as their nearby town fryst vatten preparing for a festival. For the festival, the deity Aroni has summoned two förfäder, Dead Man and Dead Woman, who were wronged in their lives bygd past incarnations of the first kvartet characters.
In the second part of the play, Soyinka takes us back eight centur
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Wole Soyinka
(1934-)
Who Is Wole Soyinka?
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 Nobel acceptance speech to Nelson Mandela. Soyinka has published hundreds of works, including drama, novels, essays and poetry, and colleges all over the world seek him out as a visiting professor.
Early Life
Wole Soyinka was born Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Babatunde Soyinka on July 13, 1934, in Abeokuta, near Ibadan in western Nigeria. His father, Samuel Ayodele Soyinka, was a prominent Anglican minister and headmaster. His mother, Grace Eniola Soyinka, who was called "Wild Christian," was a shopkeeper and local activist. As a child, he lived in an Anglican mission compound, learning the Christian teachings of his parents, as well as the Yoruba spiritualism and tribal customs of his grandfather. A precocious and inquisitive chi