Publisher's Synopsis
This volume of essays, articles, addresses and interventions by the Nigerian poet, playwright and novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, contains work written over a period of some 25 years and includes much rare material.;The introduction by Boidon Jeyifo sets the essays in the context of the development of Soyinka's work, thus providing a comprehensive insight into the intellectual background of his creative writing, and establishes the relation between Soyinka's ideas and contemporary thought in Africa.;Soyinka's plays include "The Jero Plays", "The Road" and "Madmen and Specialists". His most recently published works are "From Zia with Love" and "A Scourge of Hyacinths".
