La gran novela de Wole Soyinka, el primer africano y primer escritor de raza negra en lograr el premio Nobel de Literatura, tras casi cincuenta años sin publicar ficción.
Aké. Los años de la niñez es el relato en primera persona de la infancia de Soyinka en una aldea de Nigeria llamada Aké, en los años en torno a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Allí el pequeño Wole, un muchacho...
Es una de las obras literarias más relevantes de África. Se centra en el problema de la guerra, de las políticas étnicas y regionales, así como en las corruptas conspiraciones militares que se desarrollan en ese convulso...
The playwright, poet, essayist, novelist, and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka is also a longtime art collector. This book of essays offers a glimpse into the motivations of the collector, as well as a highly personal look at the politics of aesthetics and...
One long poem and an eclectic mix of short poems from the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and polemical essayist Wole Soyinka.
A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed the promise of independence and lived through postcolonial failure. He deeply comprehends the pressing probl...
Wole Soyinka has translated in both language and spirit a great classic of ancient Greek theater. He does so with a poetâs ear for the cadences and rhythms of chorus and solo verse as well as a commanding dramatic use of the central soci...
Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the foremost living African writers, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa. The ways in which the African world perceives itself as a cultural...