Biography of wole soyinka african
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He attended Government College, Ibadan, University College Ibadan (where this organization was formed) and University of Leeds where he received an honours degree in English in In , he produced the play The Swamp Dwellers at the University of London Drama Festival. That was the beginning of what was to become a highly accomplished career in the world of literature.
In February , he produced The Swamp Dwellers and The Lion and the Jewel. In November , he wrote, produced and acted in “An Evening without Décor,” a medley of his work which attacked racism and colonial oppression in Africa. In , he returned to Nigeria. In March , he produced The Trials of Brother Jero. In May, he acted the role of Yang Sun in The Good Woman of Setzuan. In October , he wrote, directed and acted in A Dance of the Forests with his own acting company, Masks. Between and , he directed plays by other playwrights including The New Republican and Before the Blackout. Between and , he was a Rockefeller Research Fellow, attached to the English Department of the University of Ibadan. During the period to he became a lecturer at the Department of English at the University of Ile-Ife.
From , he wrote, produced and acted in a number of stage plays including Kongi’s Harvest; The Detainee; The Road; Mad Men and
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Wole Soyinka
Nigerian 1 poet gain novelist
"Soyinka" redirects here. Expend the first name, see Soyinka (surname).
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| Born | Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka () 13 July (age&#;90) Abeokuta, Country Nigeria |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist, 1 poet |
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Wole Soyinka
A Dance of the Forests
Oxford University Press
London u.a.,
Idanre and Other Poems
Methuen
London,
Kongi’s Harvest
Oxford University Press
London u.a.,
The Trials of Brother Jero
Oxford University Press
Nairobi u.a.,
Poems from Prison
Collings
London,
Madmen and Specialists
Methuen
London,
A Shuttle in the Crypt
Methuen
London,
Der Löwe und die Perle
Volk und Welt
Berlin,
[Ü: Helmut Heinrich]
Death and the King’s Horseman
Methuen
London,
Ogun Abibiman
Collings
London,
Myth, Literature and the African World
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge,
Die Plage der tollwütigen Hunde
Walter
Olten,
[Ü: Wolfgang Strauss]
Die Ausleger
Walter
Olten,
[Ü: Inge Uffelmann]
A Play of Giants
Methuen
London,
Requiem for a Futurologist
Collings
London,
Aké
Ammann
Zürich,
[Ü: Inge Uffelmann]
Der Mann ist tot. Aufzeichnungen aus dem Gefängnis
Ammann
Zürich,
[Ü: Ulrich Enzensberger, Melanie Walz]
Stücke
Henschel
Berlin,
[Ü: Joachim Fiebach]
Art, Dialoge and Outrage. Essays on Literature and Culture
New Horn Press
Ibadan,
Die Strasse
Fischer
Frankfurt/Main,
[Ü: Olga und Erich Fetter]
Diese Vergangenheit muss sich ihrer Gegenwart stellen. Eine Rede
Ammann
Zürich,
[Ü: Inge Uffelmann]
Mandela’s Earth and Oth