Wole Soyinda Libros
Galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura por su obra que, con una amplia perspectiva cultural y matices poéticos, da forma al drama de la existencia. Su escritura profundiza en las preguntas existenciales con un enfoque lírico y perspicaz.
More than a major figure in the world of literature, Wole Soyinka is a courageous voice for human rights, democracy, and freedom. This work presents a chronicle of his thrilling public life, a meditation on justice and tyranny, and a mesmerising testament to a ravaged yet hopeful land.
Contemporary African Plays
- 382 páginas
- 14 horas de lectura
The plays included in this volume are: Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka; Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo; The Chattering and the Song by Femo Osofisan; The Rise and SHine of Comrade Fiasco by Andrew Whalley; Woza Albert! by Percy Mtwa, et al; and The Other War by Alemseged Tesfai.
Isara
- 240 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
Two years after writing his celebrated childhood autobiography Ake, Wole Soyinka opened a tin box that had belonged to his father. The simple contents of this box provide the fuel for Isara the second instalment of Soyinka's memoirs. schovat popis
Ibadan
- 397 páginas
- 14 horas de lectura
The third volume in Soyinka's series of memoirs, the sequel to Ake and Isara. In a mixture of fact and fiction - to protect the innocent and nail the guilty and shape an often intolerable reality - it tells of the coming of age of a writer and political activist; and of a nation's betrayal. schovat popis
Set in Nigeria, amid the scenes of everyday racketeering and general disquiet, the police try to clear the area of undesirables, as a traditional wedding between two illustrious and ambitious families is about to take place. This play is by Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka.