Biodun Jeyifo, Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, and Postcolonialism.(Book Review)

Africa | September 22, 2004| | Copyright

BIODUN JEYIFO, Wole Soyinka: politics, poetics, and postcolonialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hard covers 45.00 [pounds sterling], US$70.00, ISBN 0 521 39486 4). 2004, 356 pp.

'Leftocratic', blinkered, ideologically intimidating, and administering sufficient doses of dogmatic Marxism to cause the 'literary infanticide' of new African writers in the 1960s and 1970s: these, as Biodun Jeyifo reveals in the preface to his new book, are some of the accusations levelled by Wole Soyinka against Jeyifo and his Marxist peers during the ideological struggles of ...

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