Soyinka, our William Shakespeare; In the coming months we host Wole Soyinka as guest of The Es'kia Institute in the Afrikan Affirmation series. Harry Garuba of the University of Cape Town's Centre for African Studies gives insights into the life of the Nobel Laureate professor.(News)

Daily News (South Africa) | May 28, 2007 | Copyright

Poet, dramatist, novelist, memoirist and essayist, Wole Soyinka's life and works defy easy categorisation.

Unlike most writers, whose names immediately bring to mind a specific text with which they are identified, Soyinka's name is not usually conjoined with a play, poem or novel on which his reputation is seen to hang. Rather, what the name conjures is a certain vision of art and society that permeates the entire corpus of his works and circulates within the many acts of social and political activism in which he has been involved. It is this vision and his singular ...

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