Professor wole soyinka biography summary
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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 1957. In 1958, 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 1959, he produced The Swamp Dwellers and The Lion and the Jewel. In November 1959, he wrote, produced and acted in “An Evening without Décor,” a medley of his work which attacked racism and colonial oppression in Africa. In 1960, he returned to Nigeria. In March 1960, he produced The Trials of Brother Jero. In May, he acted the role of Yang Sun in The Good Woman of Setzuan. In October 1960, he wrote, directed and acted in A Dance of the Forests with his own acting company, 1960 Masks. Between 1961 and 1964, he directed plays bygd other playwrights including The New Republican and Before the Blackout.
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Wole Soyinka
(1934-)
Who Is Wole Soyinka?
Wole Soyinka was born in Nigeria and educated in England. In 1986, the playwright and political activist became the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. He dedicated his Nobel acceptance speech to Nelson Mandela. Soyinka has published hundreds of works, including drama, novels, essays and poetry, and colleges all over the world seek him out as a visiting professor.
Early Life
Wole Soyinka was born Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Babatunde Soyinka on July 13, 1934, in Abeokuta, near Ibadan in western Nigeria. His father, Samuel Ayodele Soyinka, was a prominent Anglican minister and headmaster. His mother, Grace Eniola Soyinka, who was called "Wild Christian," was a shopkeeper and local activist. As a child, he lived in an Anglican mission compound, learning the Christian teachings of his parents, as well as the Yoruba spiritualism and tribal customs of his grandfather. A precocious and inquisitive chi
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Wole Soyinka
A Dance of the Forests
Oxford University Press
London u.a., 1963
Idanre and Other Poems
Methuen
London, 1967
Kongi’s Harvest
Oxford University Press
London u.a., 1967
The Trials of Brother Jero
Oxford University Press
Nairobi u.a., 1969
Poems from Prison
Collings
London, 1969
Madmen and Specialists
Methuen
London, 1971
A Shuttle in the Crypt
Methuen
London, 1972
Der Löwe und die Perle
Volk und Welt
Berlin, 1973
[Ü: Helmut Heinrich]
Death and the King’s Horseman
Methuen
London, 1975
Ogun Abibiman
Collings
London, 1976
Myth, Literature and the African World
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge, 1976
Die Plage der tollwütigen Hunde
Walter
Olten, 1979
[Ü: Wolfgang Strauss]
Die Ausleger
Walter
Olten, 1983
[Ü: Inge Uffelmann]
A Play of Giants
Methuen
London, 1984
Requiem for a Futurologist
Collings
London, 1985
Aké
Ammann
Zürich, 1986
[Ü: Inge Uffelmann]
Der Mann ist tot. Aufzeichnungen aus dem Gefängnis
Ammann
Zürich, 19