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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

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300189028
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Africa written by Wole Soyinka and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed the promise of independence and lived through postcolonial failure. He deeply comprehends the pressing problems of Africa, and, an irrepressible essayist and a staunch critic of the oppressive boot, he unhesitatingly speaks out.In this magnificent new work, Soyinka offers a wide-ranging inquiry into Africa's culture, religion, history, imagination, and identity. He seeks to understand how the continent's history is entwined with the histories of others, while exploring Africa's truest assets: "its humanity, the quality and valuation of its own existence, and modes of managing its environment—both physical and intangible (which includes the spiritual)."Fully grasping the extent of Africa's most challenging issues, Soyinka nevertheless refuses defeatism. With eloquence he analyzes problems ranging from the meaning of the past to the threat of theocracy. He asks hard questions about racial attitudes, inter-ethnic and religious violence, the viability of nations whose boundaries were laid out by outsiders, African identity on the continent and among displaced Africans, and more. Soyinka's exploration of Africa relocates the continent in the reader's imagination and maps a course toward an African future of peace and affirmation.

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190285435
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness written by Wole Soyinka and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Laureate in Literature Wole Soyinka considers all of Africa--indeed, all the world--as he poses this question: once repression stops, is reconciliation between oppressor and victim possible? In the face of centuries-long devastation wrought on the African continent and her Diaspora by slavery, colonialism, Apartheid, and the manifold faces of racism, what form of recompense could possibly suffice? In a voice as eloquent and humane as it is forceful, Soyinka boldly challenges in these pages the notions of simple forgiveness, confession, and absolution as strategies for social healing. Ultimately, he turns to art--poetry, music, painting, etc.--as the one source that can nourish the seed of reconciliation: art is the generous vessel that can hold together the burden of memory and the hope of forgiveness. Based on Soyinka's Stewart-McMillan lectures delivered at the DuBois Institute at Harvard, The Burden of Memory speaks not only to those concerned specifically with African politics, but also to anyone seeking the path to social justice through some of history's most inhospitable terrain.

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known written by Wole Soyinka and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eagerly awaited new collection of poetry from the Nobel prize-winning author - his first since 'Mandela's Earth' in 1989.

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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 : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195119213
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Open Sore of a Continent written by Wole Soyinka and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events that led up to dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa's execution in 1995 marked Nigeria's decline from a post-colonial success story to its current military dictatorship. Wole Soyinka, whose own Nigerian passport was confiscated by the Nigerian military in 1994, explores the history and future of Nigeria in a compelling jeremiad that is as intense as it is provocative, learned, and wide-ranging.

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : London ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780192811646
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Plays written by Wole Soyinka and published by London ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `The Lion and the Jewel alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' The Times The ironic development and consequences of `progress' may be traced through both the themes and the tone of the works included in this second volume of Wole Soyinka's plays. The Lion and the Jewel shows an ineffectual assault on past tradition soundly defeated. In Kongi's Harvest, however, the pretensions of Kongi's regime are also fatal. The denouement points the way forward. The two Brother Jero plays pursue that way, the comic `propheteering' of the earlier play giving way to the sardonic reality of Jero's Metamorphosis. Madmen and Specialists, Soyinka's most pessimistic play, concerns the physical, mental, and moral destruction of modern civil war.

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780914478492
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka written by Wole Soyinka and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished scholars analyze the plays, poetry, and prose of Wole Smoyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. Essays trace his career and place his work in the general context of African literature.

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578063376
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Wole Soyinka written by Wole Soyinka and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 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.

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Paw Prints
ISBN 13 : 9781439514306
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ake written by Wole Soyinka and published by Paw Prints. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nigerian playwright, poet, and novelist recounts his first eleven years growing up under the influence of his parents, traditional Yoruba customs, and Christian missionaries