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Article: Wole Soyinka on Nigeria.(You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 2008
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You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir. Wole Soyinka. Methuen. [pounds sterling]19.99. xx + 626 pages. ISBN 978-0-413-77628-0.
Wole Soyinka, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, has produced two novels, six collections of poetry and fifteen works of drama. Yet in this book he is far less concerned with the literary world than with the political one, especially in his native Nigeria. His memoirs run to around 600 pages and are hard going. His style of writing is elaborate, laboured and 'arch'. Take, for instance this passage: I looked round, listened to the conversation around me -a pretentious note perhaps, some posturing, a preposterous ...
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Article: NOBEL PRIZE WINNING WRITER WOLE SOYINKA TO GIVE ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
October 31, 2006 ;
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... ... Northwestern University issued the following news release: Wole Soyinka - the first black African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature ... Cambridge University and, this year, published "You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir." For further information about Soyinka ...
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