
	Where results make sense

Topic: Wole Soyinka

Related Topics

A Dance of the Forests

University of Bochum

University of Oxford

Toni Morrison

Gabriel Okara

Dario Fo

Nadine Gordimer

Wislawa Szymborska

Elfriede Jelinek

Seamus Heaney

Octavio Paz

Joseph Brodsky

Samuel Beckett

Derek Walcott

1986

In the News (Sat 28 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Wole Soyinka Profile
		Wole’s works exhibit humor and fine poetic style as well as his gift for irony and satire and for accurately matching the language of complex characters to their social position and moral qualities.
		Wole's principal critical work is Myth, Literature, and the African World (1976), a collection of essays in which he examines the role of the artist in the light of Yoruba mythology and symbolism.
		Wole is Director of Literary Arts for the International Institute of Modern Letters, and he holds an untitled chair in creative writing in the English Department at UNLV.
	www.humanities.uci.edu /icwt/whoweare/wsoyinka.html (363 words)

	MSN Encarta - Wole Soyinka
		Wole Soyinka, born in 1934, Nigerian playwright, poet, novelist, and lecturer, whose writings draw on African tradition and mythology while employing Western literary forms.
		Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka was born near Abeokuta, Nigeria.
		Soyinka denied the charges, and after Abacha’s death in June 1998, his successor, Abdulsalam Abubakar, dropped the charges.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572914/Wole_Soyinka.html (422 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Reith Lectures 2004 - Climate of Fear
		A precocious, intellectually omnivorous child, Soyinka sated his hunger for knowledge at his home, which he describes in the book as "the intellectual watering-hole of Aké and its environs." His memoir is filled with the poignant, often hilarious misadventures of a hyper-energetic young boy, but toward the end the narrative takes a decidedly intense turn.
		Soyinka becomes involved in and inspired by both Nigeria's fight for independence and the revolt against a tax on women that his mother leads.
		Soyinka was arrested but never formally charged and spent most of the next twenty-seven months in solitary confinement in a cell that measured only four feet by eight feet.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/reith2004/lecturer.shtml (1011 words)

	Headlines \| Wole Soyinka: Ousting the monsters against freedom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When the Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka fled Nigeria in 1994, and was sentenced to death in absentia by the military regime of Sani Abacha in 1997, he likened the "liminal but dynamic" state of the writer in exile to a parachutist’s free fall.
		Soyinka is 71, and for more than 40 years his most obsessive theme has been "the oppressive boot and the irrelevance of the colour of the foot that wears it".
		Soyinka was born Oluwole Akinwande Babatunde Oludeinde Isola Soyinka in Abeokuta, south-west Nigeria.
	www.eastandard.net /hm_news/news.php?articleid=29443 (2697 words)

	Presidential Lectures: Wole Soyinka: Introduction
		Indeed, Soyinka's mode of liberation ultimately displaces the logic of Western politics with the rhythms of native ritual.
		The god whose ritual Soyinka offers as the model for this organic restoration is Ogun, who risks his own life to bridge the abysses that separate the three stages of Yoruba existence -- the world of the ancestors, the world of the living, and the world of the unborn.
		Rather, his realm is the chaotic region of transition between them, what Soyinka calls the "fourth stage" of the Yoruba universe, a condition where opposites collide without resolution in "a menacing maul of chthonic strength that yawns ever wider to annihilate" all social and natural order.
	prelectur.stanford.edu /lecturers/soyinka (1442 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Wole Soyinka
		Wole Soyinka’s career as a writer of drama, poetry, memoirs, novels and essays is dominated by a fierce adherence to human rights and the value of the individual’s experience.
		Soyinka’s parents and grandparents ensured that his upbringing was balanced between the perceived benefits of a ‘Western’ education and English-language skills, and the tradition-imbued society of his paternal grandparents’ home in Isara.
		Soyinka’s subsequent work is marked by a movement between a wry sense of humour, as in The Lion and the Jewel (1964), and a bleak tone, as in his anatomy of a dictator, Kongi’s Harvest (1967).
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4161 (629 words)

	Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka on Yoruba myths and the Humanization of the Gods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Soyinka began by briefly describing "the importance of academic exchanges that raise awareness of complex religious cultures" and "further curiosity in invisible religions" borrowing from Ralph Ellison's allusion to the invisible man as a creature of society's denial.
		Soyinka described religion as the "hand maiden of acts of violence" when people fail to recognize that spiritual truths can be captured in many religious constructs and that universal truth is too varied to simply be captured in one system.
		Soyinka explained the Yoruba worldview as centered in compromise and stated that the greatest Yoruba virtue is tolerance.
	www.loyno.edu /newsandcalendars/loyolatoday/2003/12/soyinka.html (532 words)

	CNN - Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka makes triumphant return to Nigeria - October 15, 1998
		Soyinka, 64, was welcomed home on Wednesday evening by hundreds of followers who sang freedom songs and surged to embrace him at the airport in Lagos, which is the country's commercial hub and the heart of opposition to long years of military dictatorship.
		Soyinka, fearing arrest for his criticism, fled into exile in 1994, slipping across the border, apparently into neighboring Benin, after his passports had been seized.
		Soyinka said he was home for a brief visit and had no appearances scheduled for Thursday.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9810/15/nigeria.soyinka (686 words)

	Climate of Fear - Wole Soyinka
		One of Soyinka's first examples is the contrast in reactions to the Lockerbie disaster and the similar 1989 bombing of a UTA flight over Niger.
		Soyinka notes that a 'climate of fear' is familiar to all who have lived under totalitarian regimes -- much of the world's population -- but that nowadays: "It is the quasi-state that today instills the greatest fear".
		Soyinka's lectures are not meant as corrective -- the subjects are too many and complex to be dealt with in a few hours time -- but are an attempt at something beyond monologue (ironically, given that these were presented as lectures, after all), inclusive of other opinion and circumstances.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/soyinkaw/coffear.htm (754 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Nobel Winner On Survival
		Soyinka, a writer and political activist whose outspoken opposition to General Sani Abacha’s brutal regime had made it unsafe for him to remain in his native Nigeria, accepted a fellowship at the Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
		Soyinka says he finds it very hard to talk about his current projects because “when I write, when I create, it’s an entirely solipsistic operation.” For this reason, all he will say about the work is that he has selected its title with his editor.
		Soyinka was born in 1934 at Abeokuta near Ibadan in the western part of Nigeria.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=504446 (2265 words)

	Soyinka, Wole on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SOYINKA, WOLE [Soyinka, Wole], 1934-, Nigerian playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, and political activist, born Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka.
		Wole Soyinka en mai à Lagos Le Nigérian prix Nobel de littérature en 1986, Wole Soyinka, se décrit comme un "père absent".
		The structural coherence of Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Soyinka.asp (857 words)

	Modern Drama: Wole Soyinka on Myth and Tragedy in Yoruba Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Soyinka believes this experience differs significantly from the Western idea that individuals orient themselves in their world through a sense of time as past, present, and future.
		Soyinka wants his own tragic dramas to enact the sufferings and actions of the Yoruba gods; he may even consider the Yoruba world-view the key to understanding all tragic drama.
		In the two footnotes to his essay, Soyinka suggests that the Yoruba people's collective memory of cosmic transition --for example, the separations of gods and humans, of the ancestors and the living -- are memories of their long history of uprooting, migration, and resettling.
	newman.baruch.cuny.edu /digital/2000/c_n_c_old/c_09_modern_drama/wole_soyinka.htm (1902 words)

	Seattle Arts & Lectures - Wole Soyinka
		For Wole Soyinka (born Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka in 1934), an artist and an activist, writing and politics are interwoven.
		Soyinka was arrested in 1967 when he tried to act as mediator for a ceasefire between the Nigerian federal government and the Biafran rebels, who wanted to secede from Nigeria.
		Soyinka is currently the Woodruff Professor of the Arts at Emory University in Atlanta and a Fellow of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard.
	www.lectures.org /soyinka.html (782 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Soyinka, as he has done throughout his life, is using his pen and voice to campaign for democracy in Nigeria.
		Soyinka, 59, said working on behalf of democracy in Nigeria has "cost me a year of my working time" for writing, not to mention hobbies like hunting antelope and fowl.
		Soyinka said all he had done was publicly call for peace talks.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/nobel/1993/1993f.html (722 words)

	Biography of Wole Soyinka
		Wole Soyinka was born Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka in Abeokuta, Nigeria onmadler search info July 13, 1934.
		In 1960, Soyinka returned to Nigeria and founded the 1960 Masks, a theatre company that would present his first major play, A Dance of the Forests, in which the spirit world and the living world clash over the future of a half-born child.
		Soyinka served as head of the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan (1969-72) and head of the Department of Dramatic Arts at the University of Ife (1975-85).
	www.geocities.com /themetrand/soyinka3 (476 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . NIGERIA - The Road North . Thoughts Of a Favorite Son: Interview With Wole Soyinka, Nigeria's Nobel ...
		When Wole Soyinka, Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winning author and playwright, heard that rioting had broken out in his country last November, he got on an airplane and headed home.
		Soyinka, among Africa's best-known writers, spent years in detention and was sentenced to death in absentia by Nigeria's military government in 1997.
		Wole Soyinka discusses the Miss World contest and subsequent riots, Sharia law and the state of his Nation in this op-ed in New Perspectives Quarterly.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/stories/nigeria/soyinka.html (1974 words)

	The visit of Nobel Laureate WOLE SOYINKA
		Wole Soyinka is, arguably, the finest African writer of this century.
		Soyinka, a vigorous critic of the succession of military dictatorships that ruled Nigeria until elections were held earlier this year, is also one of the world's most prominent advocates of human rights.
		Soyinka, who has been imprisoned and exiled by various Nigerian governments is, now able to return to his native country, but it is far from clear that democracy is entrenched.
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /history111/visit_of_nobel_laureate_wole_soy.htm (1199 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Authors \| Soyinka, Wole
		Soyinka fled Nigeria in 1994 on a 12-hour motorbike ride over the Benin border, after backing a call for international sanctions to oust dictator Sani Abacha.
		Although raised in a Christian household, Soyinka was exposed to traditional beliefs through his grandfather, a Yoruba priest.
		Wole Soyinka: The plight of writers in exile
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-205,00.html (548 words)

	AllRefer.com - Wole Soyinka (Miscellaneous English Literature, 20th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Wole Soyinka[wO´lA shOying´ku] Pronunciation Key, 1934–;, Nigerian playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, and political activist, born Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka.
		In 1986 Soyinka became the first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
		Soyinka's works are concerned with the tensions between spiritual and material worlds, with beliefs as the underpinnings of social relations, and with individuals' dependence on one another.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Soyinka.html (434 words)

	Drama: Wole Soyinka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Soyinka studied at University College, Ibadan, Nigeria, and began his literary career as an undergraduate, publishing poetry in the distinguished African literary magazine Black Orpheus.
		Soyinka has spoken out against cultural parochialism, including its manifestation in the negritude movement, which rejects white culture as a form of pollution.
		Soyinka must be thought of as a traditional dramatist, writing in the tradition of his Yoruba people but reaching a worldwide audience.
	bcs.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks_schilb/drama/soyinka.htm (520 words)

	Nobel Laureate to Speak at WFU Convocation
		Soyinka's visit to Wake Forest is one of many cultural and academic events during the Year of Globalization and Diversity, a yearlong focus on the world's development into a more global community.
		Soyinka, a poet, playwright and novelist, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986.
		Soyinka was greeted at the airport by hundreds of people singing freedom songs and his visit signaled confidence in Abubaker's promise to establish democracy in Nigeria.
	www.wfu.edu /wfunews/1999/012299n.htm (430 words)

	CNN - Nigerian junta charges Nobel winner, dissidents with bombings - Mar. 12, 1997
		Soyinka, living in exile in the United States and Europe, vehemently denied the charges.
		Soyinka is the winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature.
		Soyinka said it would be some time before the situation in Nigeria changed.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9703/12/nigeria.treason (714 words)

	Presidential Lectures: Wole Soyinka: Bibliography
		A collection of the later plays of Wole Soyinka including The Lion and the Jewel, Kongi's Harvest, The Trials of Brother Jero, Jero's Metamorphosis, Madmen and Specialists.
		An autobiographical memoir of Soyinka's childhood experiences and his coming of age in the struggle for education as the son of a pastor.
		Wole Soyinka: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources.
	prelectur.stanford.edu /lecturers/soyinka/biblio.html (250 words)

	Wole Soyinka \| Black Writers: Wole Soyinka \| WGBH Forum Network \| Free Online Lectures
		In 1986, Wole Soyinka became the first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
		Soyinka's writing spans genre and also tone, with his work ranging from satiric comedy to serious philosophy.
		Soyinka was born in 1934 in Abeokuta, near Ibadan in western Nigeria.
	forum.wgbh.org /wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=1224 (361 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Wole Soyinka
		Soyinka has published over 40 works in a career that spans five decades including most recently Mandela's Earth and Other Poems (1990), Art, Dialogue, and Outrage (1988), Isara: A Voyage Around Essay (1989), and The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (1996).
		Soyinka's poems, which show a close connection to his plays, are collected in Idanre, and Other Poems (1967), Poems from Prison (I 969), A Shuttle in the Crypt (I 972) and in the long poem, Ogun Abibiman (1976).
		Wole Soyinka was a guest at the New York State Writers Institute on March 4, 1997.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/soyinka.html (662 words)

	Isokan Yoruba Magazine: Wole Soyinka on Yoruba Religion
		Soyinka: I believe that the truly liberated mind is never aggressive about his or her system of beliefs.
		Soyinka: Yes, of course by that time I had written the draft for The Lion and the Jewel, but that was a very different thing.
		Soyinka: This was for me very obvious, because the instrument of sculpture belongs to Ogun; many sculptors are his followers and so is the flsmith, again a very creative person, not just an artisan.
	www.yoruba.org /Magazine/Summer97/File3.htm (5096 words)

	Wole Soyinka -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		He sometimes wrote of modern West Africa in a satirical style, but his serious intent and his belief in the evils inherent in the exercise of power usually was evident in his work as well.
		Soyinka's principal critical work is Myth, Literature, and the African World (1976), a collection of essays in which he examines the role of the artist in the light of Yoruba mythology and symbolism.
		The Nigerian author Wole Soyinka fused satire and criticism in his novels, plays, and poetry to reproach newly independent African nations for harboring the illusion that self-determination would automatically solve their problems.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9068955 (1199 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)