Wole Soyinka

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Wole Soyinka is affiliated with the following schools: New York University, Harvard University, Yale University, Loyola Marymount University, Emory University, University of Oxford, University of Leeds, University of Lagos, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Obafemi Awolowo University, Cornell University, University of Ibadan

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#110

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According to Wikipedia, Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka Hon. FRSL , known as Wole Soyinka , is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, for "in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence", the first sub-Saharan African to be honoured in that category.

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Wole Soyinka's Published Works

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Myth, Literature and the African World (1976) (491)
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology (2003) (370)
The burden of memory, the muse of forgiveness (1998) (176)
The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (1996) (135)
Death and the King's Horseman (1975) (123)
The Lion and the Jewel (1962) (87)
Aké: The Years of Childhood (1981) (84)
Art, Dialogue, and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture (1988) (69)
Neo-Tarzanism: The Poetics of Pseudo-Tradition (1975) (55)
Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka (1981) (41)
The Writer in an African State (1967) (37)
Madmen and Specialists (1986) (31)
Art, Dialogue and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture (1991) (23)
Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: a Memoir 1946-1965 (1995) (22)
An economic history of Ghana : reflections on a half-century of challenges & progress (2008) (21)
Ìsarà: A Voyage around "Essay" (1989) (19)
Conversations with Wole Soyinka (2001) (19)
The Critic and Society: Barthes, Leftocracy, and Other Mythologies (2018) (17)
Religion and human rights (1988) (17)
The beatification of Area Boy: A Lagosian kaleidoscope (1995) (16)
Collected plays 1 (1973) (16)
Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World (2005) (15)
Totem Voices: Plays from the Black World Repertory (1991) (13)
Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known (2003) (12)
Twice Bitten: The Fate of Africa's Culture Producers (1990) (10)
Democracy and the Cultural Apologia (1994) (9)
Polemics: The Dead End of African Literature (1997) (9)
The Impossible Necessity of Nigeria: A Struggle for Nationhood (1996) (9)
Africa’s culture producers (1991) (8)
The National Question in Africa: Internal Imperatives (1996) (7)
The Jero plays (1973) (7)
Phases in Nigerian Poetry in English (2006) (7)
New West African Literature (7)
From Zia, with love ; and, A scourge of hyacinths (1992) (6)
The Last Summer of Reason (1999) (6)
From A Common Back Cloth: A Reassessment of the African Literary Image (2016) (6)
Psychopaths of Faith vs. The Muse of Irreverence (2006) (6)
The swamp-dwellers ; The trials of Brother Jero ; The strong breed (1963) (6)
From Ghetto to Garrison: A Chronic Case of Orisunitis (1999) (6)
The last despot and the end of Nigerian history? (1994) (5)
A Name Is More Than the Tyranny of Taste (2013) (5)
Senghor: Lessons in Power (2002) (5)
Towards a True Theatre (1963) (5)
Death and the king's horseman : authoritative text, background and contexts, criticism (2003) (4)
The Trouble With You, Ali Mazrui! - Response to Ali's Millennial "Conclusion" (2000) (4)
Arms and the arts: A continent's unequal dialogue (1999) (4)
Shakespeare and the Living Dramatist (1983) (4)
Jihad for freedom (1989) (3)
Index of subjects, proverbs, and themes in the writings of Wole Soyinka (1988) (3)
From Zia, with Love (1992) (3)
Cross-Currents: The ‘New African’ After Cultural Encounters (1982) (2)
The shape of things to come (1993) (2)
Electoral fraud and the Western press (1983) (2)
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) The politics of adaptation : contemporary African drama and Greek tragedy (2011) (2)
Seven signposts of existence : knowledge, honour, justice and other virtues (1999) (2)
The blackman and the veil : a century on ; and, Beyond the Berlin Wall : lectures delivered by Wole Soyinka on 31st August and 1st September, 1990 (1993) (2)
Ali Mazrui and Skip Gates' Africa Series (2000) (2)
Aké : the years of childhood ; Season of anomy (1994) (2)
Wole Soyinka, A Transition Interview (1973) (2)
King Baabu: (A Play In The Manner Roughly Of Alfred Jarry) (2002) (1)
Ezumeezu: essays on Nigerian art & architecture: a festschrift in honour of Demas Nwoko (2012) (1)
Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions (2020) (1)
Child at the Frontier (1999) (1)
Power and Creative Strategies (1988) (1)
The avoidance word still screams its name (2006) (1)
Reimagining Pan-Africanism. Distinguished Mwalimu Nyerere Lecture Series 2009-2013 (2015) (1)
Centralism and Alienation (2002) (1)
On the Trail of Transition (1997) (1)
Africa's leadership crisis: the sagging axis (1997) (1)
The Federal Quest (1999) (1)
Wole Soyinka’s Myth, Literature and the African World (2019) (1)
Discounting the Electorate (2004) (1)
Groping in the light. (1971) (1)
Eliminating hunger and reducing poverty- Three perspectives: IFPRI 2006-2007 Annual Report Essay (2007) (1)
RITUAL AS THE MEDIUM: A MODEST PROPOSAL (1997) (1)
Narcissus and other pall-bearers: morbidity as ideology (2015) (1)
The Creative Pursuit in Global Time (2009) (1)
From Chibok with Love (2015) (1)
The Avoidance Word Still Screams Its Name: An address to the "50th Anniversary of the 1st International Congress of Black Writers and Artists," in Paris, on September 19, 2006 (2008) (0)
Discourse/Power and Marginality in (2016) (0)
The transitional politics of human rights (1994) (0)
The Chimes of Liberation and the Millennial Frontier (1999) (0)
Oral Narrative and Cultural Memory: A Critical Perspective on the Male Self and Female Other in Ayélála Myth (2022) (0)
The Lion and the jewqel / Wole Soyinka (1963) (0)
The Critics and African Literature (1978) (0)
Open letter to the Kenyan High Commissioner (1988) (0)
America in Transition (2009) (0)
African theatre; eight prize-winning plays for radio (1973) (0)
Teaching African Literature Critically (1982) (0)
MUSIC, EMOTIONS AND WELL-BEING: HISTORICAL AND SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES LIST OF ABSTRACTS (2014) (0)
To Our Readers (1990) (0)
Shakespeare and the Living Dramatist in Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century. (1983) (0)
Luo Plains (Kenya) (1964) (0)
ON THE DILEMMAS OF AFRICAN WRITERS : CONTRIBUTIONS , CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS By (2016) (0)
Aké : the years of childhood ; and, Ìsarà : a voyage around essay (1994) (0)
The deceptive silence of stolen voices : a lecture given at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in honour of Chief Emeka Anyaoku on his 70th birthday on Friday 17th January 2003 (2003) (0)
To an Expanding World of Mind-Closure (1996) (0)
Special issue: Léopold Sédar Senghor (2002) (0)
Development and culture : discussions of the inaugural programme of the Africa Leadership Forum (1988) (0)
Abstract The present study aims at exploring and analyzing the idea of resistance and reconstruction as incorporated in the selected novels of Ngugi (2016) (0)
08 Okunoye 03.pmd (2006) (0)
Haïti–An Appeal to Writers, Artists, Scholars and Other Humanists (2009) (0)
Writing in an Untenable World (2013) (0)
Network of International Development Organisations in Scotland (NIDOS), Glasgow (2007) (0)
Reimagining Pan-Africanism (2015) (0)
The transitional politics of human (1993) (0)
Changing attitudes and behaviors - The role of Africa's cultural leaders: IFPRI 2006-2007 Annual Report Essay (2004) (0)
The Avoidance Word Still Screams Its Name: An address to the "50th Anniversary of the 1st International Congress of Black Writers and Artists," in Paris, on September 19, 2006 (2008) (0)
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) The politics of adaptation : contemporary African drama and Greek tragedy van Weyenberg (2011) (0)
The Guide and the Lion and the Jewel: The Peace-Making Efforts of R. K. Narayan and Wole Soyinka (2018) (0)
America in Transition: An excerpt from the lecture “Sweet are the Uses of Diversity,” delivered at the annual Convivencia conference of Loyola Marymount University, in Los Angeles, California, on October 26, 2008 (2009) (0)
Ladies and Gentlemen, Introducing the Many Faces of ALA 2009 (2009) (0)
Celebrating Transition at Fifty (2011) (0)
"Jero's Metamorphosis," The Jero Plays (1975) (0)
Blackout, blowout & beyond : Wole Soyinka's satirical revue sketches (2005) (0)
From apartheid to Darfur: Africa's struggle against disdain (2007) (0)
A call for sanctions (1997) (0)
Voices of Africa (1974) (0)
CRITICISM AND THE 1RADmON OF POLmCAL POE1RY IN AFRICA: THE EXAMPLE OF WOLE SOYINKA (2013) (0)
Nigeria: the great charade (1997) (0)
“Culture, democracy and renewal,” (2000) (0)
The Banality of Postcolonial Power (0)
Rapture and rupture in the liminal world. (2006) (0)
Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa (2012) (0)
Contemporary African Plays (1999) (0)

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