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Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation (Paperback)
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Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation (Paperback)
Series: Black Literary and Cultural Expressions
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This timely and expansive biography of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian
writer, Nobel laureate, and social activist, shows how the author's
early years influence his life's work and how his writing, in turn,
informs his political engagement. Three sections spanning his life,
major texts, and place in history, connect Soyinka's legacy with
global issues beyond the borders of his own country, and indeed
beyond the African continent. Covering his encounters with the
widespread rise of kleptocratic rule and international corporate
corruption, his reflection on the human condition of the
North-South divide, and the consequences of postcolonialism, this
comprehensive biography locates Wole Soyinka as a global figure
whose life and works have made him a subject of conversation in the
public sphere, as well as one of Africa's most successful and
popular authors. Looking at the different forms of Soyinka's
work--plays, novels, and memoirs, among others--this volume argues
that Soyinka used writing to inform, mobilize, and sometimes incite
civil action, in a decades-long attempt at literary social
engineering.
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