description: The Nobel Prize-winning African writer, Wole Soyinka, was imprisoned without trial by the federal authorities at the start of the Nigerian Civil War. Here he records his arrest and interrogation, the efforts made to incriminate him, and the searing mental effects of solitary confinement.
language: English
title: The man died: prison notes of Wole Soyinka
titlecomplete: The man died: prison notes of Wole Soyinka
genres: Autobiography, History, Nobel Prize, African Literature, Biography Memoir, Nigeria, Africa, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 403
places: Nigeria
publisher: Africa Book Centre Ltd