Article: Postcolonial identity in Wole Soyinka.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Wole Soyinka
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...Wole Soyinka The Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka (born 1935) was one of the few African writers to denounce ... black African to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Wole Soyinka was born July 13, 1934 in Abeokuta a village on the banks ...

Transcript: Profile: Nigerian author Wole Soyinka's new ...
NPR Morning Edition;  August 14, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... 00-0000 Profile: Nigerian author Wole Soyinka's new play, King Baabu Host: JOHN ... host: Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka is premiering his first play since fleeing ... Abacha is not coincidental. Playwright Wole Soyinka fled Abacha's regime in the mid ...

Article: Wole Soyinka's "Gulliver": Swift transposed
Comparative Literature;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...WOLE SOYINKA'S VOLUME of prison poetry, A Shuttle ... dramatise himself" (The Poetry of Wole Soyinka 74). The three other poems are "Joseph ... University of Leeds in England in 1957, Wole Soyinka became a play-reader at the avant ...

Article: Slim pickings. (Reviews).(The Political Philosophy of Wole ...
Free Inquiry;  December 22, 2002 ;     583 words ...The Political Philosophy of Wole Soyinka and Other Narratives, by Yemi ... 9) 158 pp. Paper $10.00. Wole Soyinka is the first Black Nobel Prize ... The Political Philosophy of Wole Soyinka is very disappointing in this ...

Article: NOBEL LAUREATE WOLE SOYINKA DETAINED
United Press International;  May 15, 2004 ;     217 words ... ... International 05-15-2004 Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka detained LAGOS, Nigeria, May 15 ... via COMTEX) -- Nobel laureate author Wole Soyinka was briefly detained by Nigerian police ... permission for the rally. In 1986, Wole Soyinka became the first African to win the ...

Article: Biodun Jeyifo, Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, and ...
Africa;  September 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ...BIODUN JEYIFO, Wole Soyinka: politics, poetics, and postcolonialism ... some of the accusations levelled by Wole Soyinka against Jeyifo and his Marxist peers ... than a 'single author' study, Wole Soyinka transforms its central subject into ...

Article: PAGE TURNERS: A CONVERSATION WITH WOLE SOYINKA; A ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  May 25, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... for literature, Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka lives a certain dichotomy. He has been ... my parents' generation who relied on Wole Soyinka to tell the closest thing to the truth ... writers in exile. "I have always admired Wole Soyinka," novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ...