This book describes Wole Soyinkas use of language to produce texts that foreground problems of democracy in need of change. Descriptive and interdisciplinary methods were adopted. van Dijks and Faircloughs theory of sociocognition, Meys critical pragmatics, and Hallidays systemic functional grammar provided the theoretical framework for this study. Soyinkas recent non-fictional texts (e.g. You Must Set Forth At Dawn) were selected for analysis because of their richness in the representation of the writers political philosophy. They were content analysed, focusing on the themes of...