'A joyous celebration of childhood that is neither sentimental nor clichéd.' Newsday

'A superb act of remembrance ... dazzling reading.' Village Voice

230pp. UK. METHUEN, 0413751902

An opulent shopping plaza and a street lined with makeshift stalls in Lagos is the setting for Soyinka's play. Amid the everyday scenes and general hubbub, the police try to clear the area of undesirables. A traditional wedding between two illustrious families is about to take place. 108pp, UK. METHUEN

The five plays in this collection are: A Dance of the Forests, The Sqamp Dwellers, The Strong Breed, The Road, and The Bacchae of Euripides. 307pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

This collection includes The Lion and the Jewel, Kongi's Harvest, The Trials of Brother Jero, Jero's Metamophosis and Madmen and Specialists. 276pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Playwright and novelist, Soyinka has worked on experimental and political forms of theatre both in the UK and in Nigeria. Choosing to write in English to reach a wider audience both abroad and in multi-lingual Nigeria, his work was gently satirical of society as he perceived it. As his career has progressed, however, he has become increasingly outspoken against corruption and political oppression and was imprisoned for twenty-two months in 1967 for is sympathy for Biafra. In 1986, Wole Soyinka became the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

In this play, published in 1975, Soyinka plots a character whose only destiny in life is to commit ritual suicide at the King's death and lead his horses to the land of the ancestors. The intervention of a British colonial officer jeopardises the precarious balance of cultures. 92pp, UK.

Covers the period from schooldays in Ibadan through college and work in London and Paris and back to Ibadan in the heady and tempestuous days of early Nigerian independence. 381pp, UK. METHUEN, 2001 1994 0413744205 Paperback

First publication of two early plays by Soyinka, first performed in 1959 (THE INVENTION) and 1965 (THE DETAINEE), demonstrating the young writer as a vocal commentator on injustice and the abuse of power. 84pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNISA

Two years after writing his classic childhood autobiography Ake, the author discovered a box containing items that had belonged to his father. This provided the fuel for a second instalment of Soyinka's memoirs: a son's fictionalised 'voyage' into the life and times of his father. 237pp, UK. METHUEN.

A new satirical play from the Nobel Prize winning author concerning the dictatorial political regimes of Africa. 107pp, UK. METHUEN.

The extraordinary record of Soyinka's imprisonment without trial and the arrest and interrogation that proceeded his solitary confinement. Index, 317pp, UK. REX COLLINGS.

1976 1972 0901720348 Hardback

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The ways in which the African world perceives itself as a cultural entity, and the differences between its essential unity of experience and literary form and the sense of division pervading Western literature, are just some of the issues addressed. The centrality of ritual gives drama a prominent place in Soyinka’s discussion, but he deals in equally illuminating ways with contemporary poetry and fiction. 184pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

A view of Ogun as revolutionary archetype is celebrated in this long poem inspired by Samora Machel's declaration of 1976 which placed Mozambique on a war footing with white Rhodesia. Soyinka evokes myth and contemporary reality, taking on the voice of an embattled continent. Gloss, 24pp, UK. REX COLLINGS, 0860360318

An epic poem divided into three parts. 24pp, UK. RAVAN PRESS.

Play by the Nobel Prize winning author. 56pp, UK. REX COLLINGS, 0860362078

One of Wole Soyinka's most famous plays. 101pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

His first published collection of poetry for ten years. 80pp, UK. METHUEN.

Comprises three of Soyinka's books: Idanre; A Shuttle in the Crypt; and Mandela's Earth. 257pp, UK. METHUEN.

A volume of poetry composed mostly when Soyinka was imprisoned between 1967 and 1969. 89pp, UK. METHUEN PUBLISHING LTD.

An illustrated biography of Wole Soyinka published in honour of his 70th birthday. Features over 600 photographs dating from 1934 until the present day. Bib, 269pp, NIGERIA. BOOKCRAFT, 9782030422

2004 Paperback

1994 1992 CD

UK edition. Follows on from ‘Ake: The Years of Childhood’ and chronicles his turbulent adult life. 528pp, UK. METHUEN.