Ngugi Wa Thiongo Wole Soyinka

Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847010989
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ngũgĩ Wa Thiongʼo & Wole Soyinka written by Martin Banham and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Directors and collaborators assess and comment on the production of plays by West Africa's Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and East Africa's most influential author Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Wole Soyinka and Ngugi wa Thiong'o are the pre-eminent playwrights of West and East Africa respectively and their work has been hugely influential across the continent. This volume features directors' experiences of recent productions of their plays, the voices of actors and collaborators who have worked with the playwrights, and also provides a digest of their theatrical output. Contributors provide new readings of Ngugi and Soyinka's classic texts, and astimulating new approach for students of English, Theatre and African studies. The playscript for this volume is a previously unpublished radio play by Wole Soyinka entitled A Rain of Stones, first broadcast onBBC Radio 4 in 2002. Volume Editors: MARTIN BANHAM & FEMI OSOFISAN Guest Editor: KIMANI NJOGU Series Editors: Martin Banham, Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theatre Studies, University of Leeds; James Gibbs, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University of the West of England; Femi Osofisan, Professor of Drama at the University of Ibadan; Jane Plastow, Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds; Yvette Hutchison, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soyinka written by Wole Soyinka and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578063383
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Wole Soyinka written by Wole Soyinka and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within these interviews, Soyinka is forthright, clear and eloquent. He addresses many facets of his writing and plumbs pressing issues of culture, society and community.

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617032530
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Wole Soyinka written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays that examine the aesthetics and the radical politics of one of Africa's greatest writers

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789788457077
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crucible of the Ages written by Wole Soyinka and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101662468
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Petals of Blood written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-02-22 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The definitive African book of the twentieth century” (Moses Isegawa, from the Introduction) by the Nobel Prize–nominated Kenyan writer The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. A deceptively simple tale, Petals of Blood is on the surface a suspenseful investigation of a spectacular triple murder in upcountry Kenya. Yet as the intertwined stories of the four suspects unfold, a devastating picture emerges of a modern third-world nation whose frustrated people feel their leaders have failed them time after time. First published in 1977, this novel was so explosive that its author was imprisoned without charges by the Kenyan government. His incarceration was so shocking that newspapers around the world called attention to the case, and protests were raised by human-rights groups, scholars, and writers, including James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Donald Barthelme, Harold Pinter, and Margaret Drabble.

Author : B. M. Okpu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wole Soyinka written by B. M. Okpu and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Caroline Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316997707
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Literature and the CIA written by Caroline Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the period of decolonisation in Africa, the CIA covertly subsidised a number of African authors, editors and publishers as part of its anti-communist propaganda strategy. Managed by two front organisations, the Congress of Cultural Freedom and the Farfield Foundation, its Africa programme stretched across the continent. This Element unravels the hidden networks and associations underpinning African literary publishing in the 1960s; it evaluates the success of the CIA in secretly infiltrating and influencing African literary magazines and publishing firms, and examines the extent to which new circuits of cultural and literary power emerged. Based on new archival evidence relating to the Transcription Centre, The Classic and The New African, it includes case studies of Wole Soyinka, Nat Nakasa and Bessie Head, which assess how the authors' careers were affected by these transnational networks and also reveal how they challenged, subverted, and resisted external influence and control.

Author : Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620975262
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Nine written by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author Delia Owens says “tackles the absurdities, injustices, and corruption of a continent” Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s novels and memoirs have received glowing praise from the likes of President Barack Obama, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, and NPR; he has been a finalist for the Man International Booker Prize and is annually tipped to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; and his books have sold tens of thousands of copies around the world. In his first attempt at the epic form, Ngũgĩ tells the story of the founding of the Gĩkũyũ people of Kenya, from a strongly feminist perspective. A verse narrative, blending folklore, mythology, adventure, and allegory, The Perfect Nine chronicles the efforts the Gĩkũyũ founders make to find partners for their ten beautiful daughters—called “The Perfect Nine” —and the challenges they set for the 99 suitors who seek their hands in marriage. The epic has all the elements of adventure, with suspense, danger, humor, and sacrifice. Ngũgĩ’s epic is a quest for the beautiful as an ideal of living, as the motive force behind migrations of African peoples. He notes, “The epic came to me one night as a revelation of ideals of quest, courage, perseverance, unity, family; and the sense of the divine, in human struggles with nature and nurture.”

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1526638223
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth written by Wole Soyinka and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Soyinka's greatest novel ... No one else can write such a book' - Ben Okri 'A high-jinks state-of-the-nation novel' - Chibundu Onuzo A FINANCIAL TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR A towering figure in world literature, Wole Soyinka aims directly at the corridors of power as he warns against corruption both of high office and of the soul, with a dazzling lightness of touch and gleeful irreverence. Much to Doctor Menka's horror, some cunning entrepreneur has decided to sell body parts from his hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Already at the end of his tether from the horrors he routinely sees in surgery, he shares this latest development with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne, who has never before met a puzzle he couldn't solve. Neither realise how close the enemy is, nor how powerful. Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is at once a savagely witty whodunit, a scathing indictment of Nigeria's political elite, and a provocative call to arms from one of the country's most relentless political activists and an international literary giant. MORE PRAISE FOR WOLE SOYINKA: 'You don't see the things the same when you encounter a voice like that' - Toni Morrison 'One of the best there is today, a poet and a thinker, who knows both how the world works and how the world should work' - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie