Wole Soyinka

**Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka** Hon. FRSL (Yoruba: *Akínwandé Olúwọlé Babatúndé Ṣóyíinka*; a wɔwoo no Kitawonsa bosome da a ɛtɔ so dummiɛnsa wɔ afe apem ahankron ne aduasa-nan mu(1934)), din a nnipa bebree de nim no ne **Wole Soyinka** (a wɔbo no  [wɔlé ʃójinka]), yɛ Alatani (Nigerian) ahwɛgoroɔ twerɛfoɔ, ayɛsɛm twerɛfoɔ, awensɛm twerɛfoɔ, ne atwerɛtoam twerɛfoɔ wɔ brofo kasa mu. Ɔnyaa kasadwini abasobɔdeɛ a edimu wɔ, afe apem ahankron ne aduowɔtwe nsia (1986) mu, ɔne sub-Sharan bibini a wadi kan anya saa anuomoyamhyɛ no wɔ saa nkyekyɛmu no mu.

Wɔwoo Soyinka wɔ Abeokuta too Yoruba abusua bi mu. Wɔ afe apem ahankron ne aduonum-nan (1954) mu no, ɔkɔɔ aban kɔlɛɛge wɔ Ibadan, University College Ibadan ne university of Leeds a ɛwɔ Ngyerɛsi. Owiee ne adesua wɔ Nigeria ne Uk no, ɔne Royal Court Theatre a ɛwɔ London yɛɛ adwuma. Ɔkɔ twerɛɛ ahwɛgoroɔ wɔ saa aman mmienu no mu, ɔyɛɛ bi wɔ beaeɛ a yɛhwɛ ahwɛgoroɔ ne kasafidie so (radio). Ɔdii akotene wɔ Nigeria amanyɔsɛm abakɔsɛm mu ne ɛhɔ dawurobɔ dwumadie fa wɔn mfahodie firi British foɔ a wɔbɛdii wɔn so no hɔ.

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**Ahwɛgoroɔ**

* *Keffi's Birthday Treat* (1954)
* *The Invention* (1957)
* *The Swamp Dwellers* (1958)
* *A Quality of Violence* (1959)
* *The Lion and the Jewel* (1959)
* *The Trials of Brother Jero* (1960)
* *A Dance of the Forests* (1960)
* *My Father's Burden* (1960)
* *The Strong Breed* (1964)
* *Before the Blackout* (1964)
* *Kongi's Harvest* (1964)
* *The Road* (1965)
* *Madmen and Specialists* (1970)
* *The Bacchae of Euripides* (1973)
* *Camwood on the Leaves* (1973)
* *Jero's Metamorphosis* (1973)
* *Death and the King's Horseman* (1975)
* *Opera Wonyosi* (1977)
* *Requiem for a Futurologist* (1983)
* *A Play of Giants* (1984)
* *Childe Internationale* (1987)
* *From Zia with Love* (1992)
* *The Detainee* (radio play)
* *A Scourge of Hyacinths* (radio play)
* *The Beatification of Area Boy* (1996)
* *Document of Identity* (radio play, 1999)
* *King Baabu* (2001)
* *Etiki Revu Wetin*
* *Alapata Apata* (2011)
* "Thus Spake Orunmila" (in *Sixty-Six Books* (2011)

**Ayɛsɛm**

* *The Interpreters* (1965)
* *Season of Anomy* (1973)
* *Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth* (Bookcraft, Nigeria; Bloomsbury, UK; Pantheon, US, 2021)

**Anasesɛm atiatia bi**

* *A Tale of Two* (1958)
* *Egbe's Sworn Enemy* (1960)
* *Madame Etienne's Establishment* (1960)

**Memoirs**

* *The Man Died: Prison Notes* (1972)
* *Aké: The Years of Childhood* (1981)
* *Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: a memoir 1945–1965* (1989)
* *Ìsarà: A Voyage around Essay* (1989)
* *You Must Set Forth at Dawn* (2006)

**Poetry collections**

* *Telephone Conversation* (1963) (appeared in *Modern Poetry in Africa*)
* *Idanre and other poems* (1967)
* *A Big Airplane Crashed into The Earth* (original title *Poems from Prison*) (1969)
* *A Shuttle in the Crypt* (1971)
* *Ogun Abibiman* (1976)
* *Mandela's Earth and other poems* (1988)
* *Early Poems* (1997)
* *Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known* (2002)

**Essays**

* "Towards a True Theater" (1962)
* *Culture in Transition* (1963)
* *Neo-Tarzanism: The Poetics of Pseudo-Transition*
* *A Voice That Would Not Be Silenced*
* *Art, Dialogue, and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture* (1988)
* *From Drama and the African World View* (1976)
* *Myth, Literature, and the African World* (1976)
* *The Blackman and the Veil* (1990)
* *The Credo of Being and Nothingness* (1991)
* *The Burden of Memory – The Muse of Forgiveness* (1999)
* *A Climate of Fear* (the BBC Reith Lectures 2004, audio and transcripts)
* *New Imperialism* (2009)
* *Of Africa* (2012)
* *Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions* (2019)

**Films**

* *Kongi's Harvest*
* *Culture in Transition*
* *Blues for a Prodigal*

**Translations**

* *The Forest of a Thousand Demons: A Hunter’s Saga* (1968; a translation of D. O. Fagunwa's *Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmalẹ̀*)
* *In the Forest of Olodumare* (2010; a translation of D. O. Fagunwa's *Igbo Olodumare*)

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