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'Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest' - New York Times Book Review

A Play of Giants is a savage satire on some of the best-known dictators of our time (including Idi Amin); it brings together a group of dictatorial African leaders at bay in an embassy in New York attempting to make decisions together. Its theatrical predecessors include: Genet's The Balcony and Brecht's Arturo Ui.

From Zia with Love and A Scourge of Hyacinths; When the Military decrees that a crime carrying a...

A dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka.
"Ake The Years of Childhood" gives us the story of Soyinka's boyhood before and during World War II in a Yoruba village in western Nigeria called Ake. A relentlessly curious child who loved books and getting into trouble, Soyinka grew up on a parsonage compound, raised by Christian parents and by a grandfather who introduced him to Yoruba spiritual traditions. His vivid evocation of the colorful sights, sounds, and aromas of the world that shaped him is both...

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 problems of Africa, and, an irrepressible essayist and a staunch critic of the oppressive boot, he unhesitatingly speaks out.

In this magnificent new work, Soyinka offers a wide-ranging inquiry into Africa's culture, religion, history, imagination, and identity. He seeks to understand how the continent's history is entwined with the...

Inmitten überwucherter Hügel, umgeben von dichtem Unterholz und steil abfallenden Felswänden, liegt Aké. Der lärmerfüllte Markt und der verschwenderische, nach Mangos und Zitronenblättern duftende Obstgarten sind ebenso faszinierend wie das Pfarreigehöft mit seinem geheimnisvollen Pferdestall. Nach den aufregenden Geschichten der Mutter von Waldgeistern und wiederkehrenden Toten finden die Kinder Ruhe im vertrauenerweckenden Gesicht von Mrs B, der Frau des Buchhändlers.

Mit drei Jahren verlangt der junge Wole, die Schule besuchen zu dürfen, gebannt von den Buchstaben in...