Wole Soyinka (Fellow at W.E.B. D Fellow at W.E.B. DuBois Institute

Broschiertes Buch

The Open Sore of a Continent

A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis

Beschreibung

A study of the significance of the execution of dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists to Nigeria's global reputation. Soyinka criticises what he sees as the decline of Nigeria from a post-colonial success story to a military dictatorship marked by the executions. He then considers Nigeria's future.

Autor

Wole Soyinka, an internationally acclaimed playwright, essayist, and memoirist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. In exile from his Nigerian homeland, Soyinka divides his time between London and Cambridge, Massachussetts. He is the author of Collected Plays, Dance of the Forests, The Lion and the Jewel, The Road, Kongi's Harvest, and Three Short Plays (all OUP).

Produktdetails

• W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 258g
• ISBN-13: 9780195119213
• ISBN-10: 0195119215
• Artikelnr.: 22053352