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Wole Soyinka

August 2023

  • Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

    The books of my life
    Ayòbámi Adébáyò: ‘I read The Go-Between by LP Hartley and couldn’t stop crying’

    The Booker-longlisted Nigerian author on the elementary appeal of Sherlock Holmes, crying with LP Hartley and the joys of rereading

June 2023

  • NIGERIA-ARTS-LITERATURE<br>Renowned Ghanaian author, poet, playwright and academic Ama Ata Aidoo is pictured during the Ake Arts and Book festival in Abeokuta, southwest Nigeria, on November 17, 2017. - The annual Ake arts and book festival featured 12 authors, novelists, poets, dancers, actors, illustrators, activists, musicians, among others, who were at the event to share their work and their ideas. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP) (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images)

    Ama Ata Aidoo obituary

    One of Africa’s most influential playwrights and poets who served as education minister in her native Ghana

October 2021

  • Wole Soyinka.

    Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth review – Nigeria unmasked

    Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka’s first novel in 50 years is a fearless satire about idealism running up against corruption and greed

September 2021

  • FRANCE-NIGERIA<br>Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka poses on March 25, 2017 in Paris. / AFP PHOTO / THOMAS SAMSON (Photo credit should read THOMAS SAMSON/AFP via Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka review – a vast danse macabre

  • Wole Soyinka … ‘I don’t use that word, happy. And I don’t use the word unhappy. I try to attain a state of equilibrium.’

    Wole Soyinka: ‘This book is my gift to Nigeria’

August 2021

  • Jean Binta Breeze in 2014

    Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze obituary

    Poet who expressed female experience through dub and was a powerful performer of her own work

January 2021

  • Wole Soyinka

    Wole Soyinka: 'One casualty of the Capitol riot will be Uganda's election'

    One of Africa’s most prominent literary figures says the election will be crucial for the continent

October 2020

  • FRANCE-NIGERIA<br>Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka poses on March 25, 2017 in Paris. / AFP PHOTO / THOMAS SAMSON (Photo credit should read THOMAS SAMSON/AFP via Getty Images)

    Wole Soyinka to publish first novel in almost 50 years

    Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth will be released this year, with the 86-year-old author also planning fresh theatre work after ‘continuous writing’ in lockdown

August 2020

  • Wole Soyinka.

    Wole Soyinka protests imprisonment of Nigerian humanist Mubarak Bala

    Nobel literature laureate writes letter of solidarity marking Bala’s 100th day in detention, saying his supporters ‘will not rest until you are free and safe’

September 2018

  • Wole Soyinka

    Women's rights and gender equality
    Nobel laureate urges Nigeria's youth to stand for election and oust 'old fogies'

    Wole Soyinka bemoans attacks on girls’ education and calls on young people to mobilise politically in run-up to February poll

April 2018

  • The Concrete Dreams tour ends with a live performance at Southbank’s Purcell Room.

    Concrete Dreams: new show celebrates Southbank's history of performance

    Exclusive: exhibition looks back on London cultural centre’s legacy through 50 years of archive material

January 2018

  • A boy and a girl sit and read books in a mobile library in Lagos.

    Of course we have bookshops in Nigeria. But they’re for the lucky few

    Sede Alonge
    A silly question put to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie caused outrage. A silly question put to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie caused outrage. A little honest reflection on national priorities might also be in order, writes the Lagos-based lawyer Sede Alonge

January 2017

  • Par1059900<br>ius Lagos, NIGERIA: Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka arrives to joint fellow activists for the protest march 11 December 2006 in Lagos. Civil rights activists marched through the streets of Lagos to protest the style of leadership of President Olusegun Obasanjo, including the on-going electronic voters registration which is believed could deny millions of eligible voters their right. AFP PHOTO/PIUS UTOMI EKPEI (Photo credit should read PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images) HORIZONTAL|PUE05

    Wole Soyinka confirms he destroyed his green card after Trump win

    The Nobel laureate, who threatened to destroy his green card last year, confirmed he has done so as an act of protest before 20 January’s inauguration ceremony

November 2016

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    Wole Soyinka says he will tear up his green card if Trump wins

    The Nigerian Nobel-winning author, now living in the US, tells Oxford students that it is up to young people to stand against ‘ultranationalism’ – in a speech that also took aim at Brexit and Bob Dylan

March 2016

  • A scene from Jerusalem @ Royal Court (Opening 15-07-09) Tristram Kenton 7/09 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The Royal Court at 60: look back in wonder

    London’s powerhouse of new writing is celebrating its 60th birthday. Explore some of the Sloane Square theatre’s key productions through extracts from the Guardian and Observer archive, alongside new recollections from Wole Soyinka, Ann Jellicoe, Amanda Redman, Sally Hawkins and others

January 2016

  • Lagos, Nigeria

    The Writing Life Around the World by Electric Literature
    Be careless with your wishes: A Igoni Barrett on the writing life in Nigeria

    Nigerian author A Igoni Barrett recounts how a personal rebellion led him to writing – and to confronting his worse bully: his own country

September 2015

  • Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet, Joanna Lumley in The Cherry Orchard and Mark Rylance in Jerusalem

    From Oedipus to The History Boys: Michael Billington's 101 greatest plays

    In his new book, the Guardian’s theatre critic has selected what he thinks are the 101 greatest plays ever written, in any language – so do you agree?

June 2015

  • Simon Armitage, Oxford professor of poetry

    Brawls, booze and slurs: 300 years of Oxford University’s professor of poetry

  • Wole Soyinka in Lagos, 2006.

    Oxford poetry needs to broaden its accent

May 2015

  • Sophie Heawood: quills

    Sophie Heawood's Weekend column
    Sophie Heawood: Think the world of poetry is a gentle one? Sharpen your quills…

    ‘Poetry is more entertaining than anything Simon Cowell ever produced, and far more vicious’
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