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Aké: The Years of ChildhoodAké: The Years of Childhood
Soyinka, Wole

'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

2000 (1981) Paperback 


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BEATIFICATION OF AN AREA BOY: A Lagosian Kaleidoscope
Soyinka, Wole

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

1995 0413686809 Paperback 


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BEATIFICATION OF AN AREA BOY: A Lagosian Kaleidoscope


COLLECTED PLAYS ONECOLLECTED PLAYS ONE
Soyinka, Wole

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.

1996 1973 0192811363 Paperback 


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COLLECTED PLAYS TWO
Soyinka, Wole

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.

1971971 0192811649 Paperback 


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COLLECTED PLAYS TWO


DEATH AND THE KING'S HORSEMANDEATH AND THE KING'S HORSEMAN
Soyinka, Wole

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.

1993 9780413695505 Paperback 


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Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years. A Memoir 1946-65
Soyinka, Wole

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

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Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years. A Memoir 1946-65

THE INVENTION & THE DETAINEETHE INVENTION & THE DETAINEE
Motsa, Zodwa (Ed.)

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

2005 1868883299 Paperback 


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ISARA: A Voyage Around Essay
Soyinka, Wole

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.

2001 1990 0413752003 Paperback 


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ISARA: A Voyage Around Essay


KING BAABUKING BAABU
Soyinka, Wole

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

2002 041377175X Paperback 


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THE MAN DIED: The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka
Soyinka, Wole

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 MAN DIED: The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka

MYTH, LITERATURE AND THE AFRICAN WORLDMYTH, LITERATURE AND THE AFRICAN WORLD
Soyinka, Wole

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.

1990 0521398347 Paperback 


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OGUN ABIBIMAN
Soyinka, Wole

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

1980 1976 Paperback 


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OGUN ABIBIMAN


OGUN ABIBIMAN: An Epic Poem Dedicated to the Fallen of SowetoOGUN ABIBIMAN: An Epic Poem Dedicated to the Fallen of Soweto
Soyinka, Wole

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

1980 0869751875 Paperback 


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REQUIEM FOR A FUTUROLOGIST
Soyinka, Wole

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

1985 Paperback 


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REQUIEM FOR A FUTUROLOGIST


THE ROADTHE ROAD
Soyinka, Wole

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

1988 1965 0199110840 Paperback 


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SAMARKAND AND OTHER MARKETS I HAVE KNOWN
Soyinka, Wole

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

2002 0413772551 Paperback 


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SAMARKAND AND OTHER MARKETS I HAVE KNOWN


SELECTED POEMSSELECTED POEMS
Soyinka, Wole

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

2001 0413764605 Paperback 


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SHUTTLE IN THE CRYPT
Soyinka, Wole

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

1986 1972 0413288900 Paperback 


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SHUTTLE IN THE CRYPT


WS: A Life in FullWS: A Life in Full
Olayebi, Bankole (Ed.)

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

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WOLE SOYINKA READS YORUBA POETRY WITH OKUTA PERCUSSION
A reading by Wole Soyinka of 7 Yoruba poems with accompanying Okuta Percussion recorded in Bayreuth, Germany, March 1992. 11 tracks, 62:51 mins, GERMANY. BAYREUTH A S,

1994 1992 CD

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YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN: A MemoirYOU MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN: A Memoir
Soyinka, Wole

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

2007 2006 9780413776280 Hardback 


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