Wole Soyinka

Jero Plays

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 193mm x 127mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 113g
• ISBN-13: 9780413292407
• ISBN-10: 0413292401
• Artikelnr.: 21908962

Autorenporträt

Wole Soyinka is a playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist born in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1934. Soyinka won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature with his debut novel, The Interpreters, becoming the first-ever African laureate and has since won many other prizes such as the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award in 2009 and the Anisfield-Wolf book Award, Lifetime Achievement in 2012. A prominent political activist, Soyinka was imprisoned for nearly two years during the Nigerian Civil War and was later exiled. He continues to fight against government corruption and oppression worldwide.