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Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
'Soyinka's greatest novel'
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 2022
135 kr
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'Soyinka's greatest novel ... No one else can write such a book' - Ben Okri'A lion of African literature' - Financial Times'Chronicles is many things at once: a caustic political satire, a murder mystery, a conspiracy story and a deeply felt lament for the spirit of a nation' - Juan Gabriel …
Interpreters
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 2024
139 kr
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Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka’s debut novel tells the story of a group of friends facing political corruption and cultural uncertainty in post-independence Nigeria.Friends since high school, Egbo, Bandele, Sagoe, Sekoni and Kola have returned to Lagos after studying abroad. As they navigate wild …
Myth, Literature and the African World
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 1990
299 kr
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Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the foremost living African writers, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa. The ways in which the African world perceives itself as a cultural entity, and the differences between its …
The Lion and the Jewel
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 1974
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
141 kr
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This is one of the best-known plays by Africa's major dramatist, Wole Soyinka.It is set in the Yoruba village of Ilunjinle. The main characters are Sidi (the Jewel), 'a true village belle' and Baroka (the Lion), the crafty and powerful Bale of the village, Lakunle, the young teacher, influenced by …
Soyinka Plays: 2
A Play of Giants; From Zia with Love; A Scourge of Hyacinths; The Beatification of Area Boy
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 1999
384 kr
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"Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest" (New York Times Book Review) A Play of Giants is a savage satire on some of the best-known dictators of our time (including Idi Amin); it brings together a group of dictatorial African leaders at bay in an embassy in New …
Climate of Fear: Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 2005
257 kr
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Contemporary African Plays
Death and the King's;Anowa;Chattering & the Song;Rise & Shine of Comrade;Woza Albert!;Other War
Av Wole Soyinka, Percy Mtwa m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
415 kr
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The only current anthology to survey the rich variety of contemporary African drama The plays included in this volume are: Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka; Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo; The Chattering and the Song by Femi Osofisan; The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco by Andrew Whaley; Woza …
Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness
Av Wole Soyinka
E-bok, 2000
235 kr
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When Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka''s The Open Sore of a Continent appeared in 1996, it received rave reviews in the national media. Now comes Soyinka''s powerful sequel to that fearless and passionate book, The Burden of Memory . Where Open Sore offered a critique of African nationhood and a searing …
Collected Plays: Volume 1
A Dance of the Forests; The Swamp Dwellers; The Strong Breed; The Road; The Bacchae of Euripides
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 1973
300 kr
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The Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka has been hailed as `one of the finest poetic playwrights who have ever written in English' (Martin Esslin) and `a writer of genius' (Irish Times).The five plays in this collection are linked by their concern with the spiritual and the social, with belief and ritual …
Collected Plays: Volume 2
The Lion and the Jewel; Kongi's Harvest; The Trials of Brother Jero; Jero's Metamorphosis; Madmen and Specialists
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 1974
372 kr
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`The Lion and the Jewel alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' The TimesThe ironic development and consequences of `progress' may be traced through both the themes and the tone of the works …
The Open Sore of a Continent
A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 1997
284 kr
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On November 10, 1995, the Nigerian military government under General Sani Abacha executed dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight other activists, and the international community reacted with outrage. The response was quick, decisive, and nearly unanimous: Nigeria is an outcast in the …
Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness
Av Wole Soyinka
E-bok, 1998
228 kr
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When Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka''s The Open Sore of a Continent appeared in 1996, it received rave reviews in the national media. Now comes Soyinka''s powerful sequel to that fearless and passionate book, The Burden of Memory . Where Open Sore offered a critique of African nationhood and a searing …
Of Africa
Av Wole Soyinka
E-bok, 2012
191 kr
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A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed the promise of independence and lived through postcolonial failure. He deeply comprehends the pressing problems of Africa, and, an irrepressible …
Of Africa
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 2013
142 kr
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A Nobel laureate offers a keen, thought-provoking analysis of Africa's current crises and points the way to cultural and political renewalA member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed the promise of …
Beyond Aesthetics
Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions
Av Wole Soyinka
Inbunden, 2020
237 kr
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An intimate reflection on culture and tradition, creativity and power, that draws on a lifetime’s commitment to aesthetic encounterThe playwright, poet, essayist, novelist, and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka is also a longtime art collector. This book of essays offers a glimpse into the motivations of …
You Must Set Forth at Dawn
A Memoir
Av Wole Soyinka
E-bok, 2007
173 kr
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The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, …
Death and the King's Horseman
A Play
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 2002
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
154 kr
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Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's powerful play concerns the intertwined lives of Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman; his son, Olunde, now studying medicine in England; and Simon Pilkings, the colonial district officer. The king …
Bacchae of Euripides
A Communion Rite
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 2004
255 kr
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Wole Soyinka has translated—in both language and spirit—a great classic of ancient Greek theater. He does so with a poet's ear for the cadences and rhythms of chorus and solo verse as well as a commanding dramatic use of the central social and religious myth. In his hands The Bacchae becomes a …
Jero Plays
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 1973
219 kr
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"Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest" (New York Times Book Review) These hilarious and vicious two plays examine the corruption of Nigerian society through a study of the rise and fall of one of its self-made charismatic preachers."Wole Soyinka's Nobel Prize …
Death and the King's Horseman
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 1975
217 kr
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Elesin Oba, the King's Horseman, has a single destiny. When the King dies, he must commit ritual suicide and lead his King's favourite horse and dog through the passage to the world of the ancestors. A British Colonial Officer, Pilkings, intervenes to prevent the death and arrests Elesin. The play …
Soyinka Plays: 1
Brother Jero; Camwood on the Leaves; Death & the King's Horseman; Madmen & Specialists; Opera Wonyosi
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 1984
384 kr
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Six masterful works by the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright. Death and the King's Horseman: 'A transfixing work of modern world drama' (Independent); Madmen and Specialists: 'A luminous play, examining the way in which war exposes and clarifies human conduct' (Observer); Opera Wonyosi, …
From Zia With Love and A Scourge of Hyacinths
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 1992
219 kr
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"Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest." (New York Times Book Review) When the Military decrees that a crime carrying a prison sentence now retroactively warrants summary execution, confusion and fear permeate a society where the brutality and injustice of …
Beatification Of Area Boy
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 1995
219 kr
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Set in Nigeria, amid the scenes of everyday racketeering and general disquiet, the police try to clear the area of undersirables, as a traditional wedding between two illustrious and ambitious families is about to take place.'Witty, wise and uplifting, this is a beautiful play whose message steals …
Death and the King's Horseman
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 1998
185 kr
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"The action of the play is as inevitable and eloquent as in Antigone: a clash of values and cultures so fundamental that tragedy issues: a tragedy for each individual, each tribe" Daily Telegraph"This play, by the winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature, asks: 'On the authority of what gods' the …
King Baabu
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 2002
219 kr
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The keenly awaited new play from the Nobel prize-winner A naked satire on the rule of General Abacha in Nigeria, the play chronicles the debauched rule of General Basha Bash who takes power in a coup and exchanges his general's uniform for a robe and crown re-christening himself King Baabu. In the …
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
A Novel
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 2022
352 kr
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature gives us a tour de force, combining "elements of a murder mystery, a searing political satire and an Alice in Wonderland-like modern allegory of power and deceit" ( Los Angeles Times ). In an …
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
A Novel
Av Wole Soyinka
2021
272 kr
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The first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly half a century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning …
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
Av Wole Soyinka
E-bok, 2021
236 kr
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Ake: The Years of Childhood
Av Wole Soyinka
Häftad, 1989
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
255 kr
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