Wole Soyinka
Biographic Data
| ID | 98666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wole Soyinka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wole |
| FAMILY NAME | Soyinka |
| SIGNATURE | SOYINKA W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 67 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 296 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
When Is a Nation?: Power, Volition, and the Reprimands of Liberation History
The implicit irony, the issues fomenting African states’ objections to the Biafran declaration of independence in the 1960s, revolved around two warring polarities: dictation on the one hand, and volition on the other – ironic because these were the very terms that had brought these African nations into arbitrary being as their own entities. Yet the disapproval of African nations, a majority of whom comprised the Organisation of African Unity, wa…
Sand Dune and Ocean Bed: The Quest for Reparatory Justice for a Global Atrocity
Migrant
Sans Souci
Revisionism: History lost and found
Permit me to join others in bidding you – Welcome. Welcome to the – well, more or less – geographical navel of the continent. However, just to ensure your accurate situating as you begin to exchang
"For FRANCIS Abiola Irele - "Olohun-Iyo
Pour FRANCIS Abiola Irele - « Olohun-Iyo
I am a fundamentalist of freedom
Why did it take so long for this association to hold its meeting here? The African continent, and especially Yoruba society, has been so robustly represented in Germany and especially in Bayreuth b
The Critic and Society: Barthes, Leftocracy, and Other Mythologies
635 African American Review 50.4 (Winter 2017): 635-648© 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press and Saint Louis University BTS #2 - Soyinka_Soyinka 2/14/2018 5:04 PM Page 635 636 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW BTS #2 - Soyinka_Soyinka 2/14/2018 5:04 PM Page 636 WOLE SOYINKA 637 BTS #2 - Soyinka_Soyinka 2/14/2018 5:04 PM Page 637 638 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW BTS #2 - Soyinka_Soyinka 2/14/2018 5:04 PM Page 638 WOLE SOYINKA 639 BTS #2 - Soyinka_Soyinka 2/14/20…
Rage Against that Good Night
Wole Soyinka’s book, Between Defective Memory and the Public Lie: A Personal Odyssey in the Republic of Liars, has elicited a lot of controversy and public ire in Nigeria. To many it would appear as a gratuitous piece of self-indulgence in that it addresses mainly his real or perceived detractors and critics. As a piece of edifying writing, where does it stand? One is forced to say quite low on the level of art. It does not seek to soothe frayed …
Reimagining Pan-Africanism: Distinguished Mwalimu Nyerere Lecture Series 2009-2013
Reimagining Pan-Africanism. Distinguished Mwalimu Nyerere Lecture Series 2009-2013: Distinguished Mwalimu Nyerere lecture series 2009-2013 : Wole Soyinka, Samir Amin, Bereket Habte Selassie, Mĩcere Gĩ…
In the nineteen 60s and 70s, the University of Dar es salaam was recognised internationally as a great academic institution, and the site of anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist, socialist studies and activism. With the onslaught of neo-liberalism beginning with Structural Adjustment Programmes in Tanzania in the mid 80s, the university was one of its prime targets; subjected to numerous pressures designed to extinguish the flames of revolutionary …
Pouvoir, liberté et terreur
Of Power, Freedom, and Terror
Debates: A Name is More than the Tyranny of Taste
Of Africa
A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, the author has witnessed the promise of independence and lived through postcolonial failure. He deeply comprehends the pressing problems of Africa, and, as an irrepressible essayist and a staunch critic of the oppressive boot, he unhesitatingly speaks out. In this work, he offers a wide-ranging inquiry into Africa's culture, rel…
Twelve Canticles for the Zealot
Journal Article Twelve Canticles for the Zealot ... Get access Wole Soyinka Wole Soyinka Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 79, Issue 3, September 2011, Pages 557–561, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfr025 Published: 01 September 2011
Alioune Diop - At the Centennial
Theatre Matters: Performance and Culture on the World Stage
The Creative Pursuit in Global Time
(2009). The Creative Pursuit in Global Time. Journal of the African Literature Association: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 15-38
Elegy for a Nation
Haïti-An Appeal to Writers, Artists, Scholars and Other Humanists
Élégie pour une nation
When Janet Jackson Meets Ayatollah Ali al‐Sistani ‐ Spring 2004
Cet homme est mort
Soyinka Wole, Galle Étienne. Cet homme est mort. In: Communications, 79, 2006. Des faits et des gestes. Le parti pris du document, 2, sous la direction de Jean-François Chevrier et Philippe Roussin. pp. 9-22
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology
An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford
Art, Dialogue and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture
Art, Dialogue and Outrage
The Writing of Wole Soyinka
Includes sections on Wole Soyinka's autobiographical work Ake, some of his plays, some collections of poetry and of two of his novels. North America: Heinemann
The Bacchae of Euripides. A Communion Rite
Idanre and Other Poems
Africa's culture producers
Isara: "A Voyage around "Essay
This evocation of Nigeria before and during World War II has been written by the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is a follow-up to Ake: The Years of Childhood
I am a fundamentalist of freedom
Why did it take so long for this association to hold its meeting here? The African continent, and especially Yoruba society, has been so robustly represented in Germany and especially in Bayreuth b
Senghor: Lessons in Power
Recently, East Timor celebrated a hard won independence, the end of a singularly brutal passage through Indonesian colonialism. Present were Heads and representatives of governments, Human Rights organizations, relief agencies, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and even the Head of the Indonesian government. Missing, however, was one former Head of State who, by rights, should have been accorded a place of honor at that ceremony—this w…
Centralisme et aliénation
L’essence de la question qui nous intéresse – du moins pour le continent africain – consiste à mon sens à savoir comment parvenir à une harmonisation interne d’éléments apparemment irréconciliables au sein d’entités nationales, comment réconcilier des peuples ayant des histoires différentes avec les conséquences de l’arbitraire colonial et le manque d’audace, l’absence de volonté des dirigeants de la première génération, qui n’ont pas su s’attaqu…
Ali Mazrui and Skip Gates' Africa Series
Ali Mazrui's preliminary critique of Henry Louis Gates' Africa series has been pounding cyber-space with an energy that I have not experienced since I became its reluctant and fitful tenant. I am not on the iasa-list - to which this is addressed - nor on any other circulation list, yet I have had this critique copied to me from over two dozen directions, sometimes culled from other lists of whose existence I was not even aware - not surprisingly,…
From Ghetto to Garrison: A Chronic Case of Orisunitis
There is no question about it, it could only have been four years of exile, traipsing through the United States, Europe, and the more fortunate parts of Africa, and becoming newly aware of the theater scene in such politically stable zones, that forcefully brought home to my mind what a contrast exists between theater life in a number of countries like Nigeria, and others, especially Europe and America. That is, what we have learnt to accept as "…
The Impossible Necessity of Nigeria: A Struggle for Nationhood
Wole Soyinka: Art et Politique
Nigeria
Nigeria
Idanre and Other Poems
"Jero's Metamorphosis," The Jero Plays
The Bacchae of Euripides. A Communion Rite
Myth, literature and the African world
The Critics and African Literature
Aké: The Years of Childhood
Ake: The Years of Childhood
Opera Wonyosi
Teaching African Literature Critically
Wole Soyinka: Art et Politique
Las tribulaciones del hermano Jero
Traducción del ingés: Carmen Chuaqui
The Writing of Wole Soyinka
Includes sections on Wole Soyinka's autobiographical work Ake, some of his plays, some collections of poetry and of two of his novels. North America: Heinemann
Twice Bitten: The Fate of Africa's Culture Producers
Let us anchor ourselves, for a start, to some acceptable terrain of cultural definitions. I shall use an example from our not too distant encounters. Few will disagree with me today, if I propose that we reject the concept of culture as realized in that manifestation known as Festac 77 [Festac: Black and African Festival of the Arts, Lagos, Nigeria, February 1977]. For, in the main, our people were offered a narrowed-down, reductionist aspect of …
Index of Subjects, Proverbs, and Themes in the Writings of Wole Soyinka
Isara: "A Voyage around "Essay
This evocation of Nigeria before and during World War II has been written by the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is a follow-up to Ake: The Years of Childhood
Art, Dialogue and Outrage
Africa's culture producers
Art, Dialogue and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: English, French, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba: Foreword by Wole Soyinka
The ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ does not of course aspire to the mystification tendencies of most ideological tracts — including the religious. It is a straightforward, humanist statement of rights, one that is transcendental only in the sense that it does transcend all ideological and religious detractions from the worth of man, woman and child as the fundamental unit of culture, productivity and indeed, civilisation. It therefore de…
The Credo of Being and Nothingness
The last despot and the end of Nigerian history
The Transitional Politics of Human Rights
The Open Sore of a Continent; A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis
This is an exploration into the history and future of Nigeria. In the process of elucidating the Nigerian crisis, the author opens readers to the broader questions of nationhood, identity, and the general state of African culture and politics at the end of the 20th century. He examines the different ways in which a nation can be defined, and asks how these varying definitions impact the people who live under them. The book concludes with a call f…
To My First White Hairs
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