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

The Open Sore of a Continent

A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis

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Produktbeschreibung

The events that led up to dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa's execution in 1995 marked Nigeria's decline from a post-colonial success story to its current military dictatorship. Wole Soyinka, whose own Nigerian passport was confiscated by the Nigerian military in 1994, explores the history and future of Nigeria in a compelling jeremiad that is as intense as it is provocative, learned, and wide-ranging.

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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.

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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

Autorenporträt

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).