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Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka's debut novel tells the story of a group of friends facing political corruption and cultural uncertainty in post-independence Nigeria. Friends since high school, Egbo, Bandele, Sagoe, Sekoni and Kola have returned to Lagos after studying abroad. As they navigate wild parties, affairs of the heart, philosophical debates, and professional dilemmas, they struggle to reconcile the cultural traditions and Western in...

Wole Soyinka's Nobel Prize-winning debut novel tells the story of a group of friends facing political corruption and cultural uncertainty in post-independence Nigeria. A transformative work in its time, The Interpreters is a classic piece of modern literature. Friends since high school, the five young men at the heart of The Interpreters have returned to Lagos after studying abroad and are about to embark on very different careers. As they n...

In The Open Sore of a Continent, Soyinka, whose own Nigerian passport was confiscated by General Abacha in 1994, explores the history and future of Nigeria in a compelling jeremiad that is as intense as it is provocative, learned, and wide-ranging. He deftly explains the shifting dramatic personae of Nigerian history and politics to Westerners unfamiliar with the players and the process, tracing the growth of Nigeria as a player in the world e...

TRIÂNGULO AMOROSO À AFRICANA No pequeno povoado de Ilujinle, Baroka, o sexagenário chefe da aldeia, conhecido como ¿o Leãö, e Lakunle, o jovem professor de ideias avançadas e ocidentais, disputam o amor de Sidi, a Joia do vilarejo. Pequena obra-prima do Prêmio Nobel de Literatura de 1986, O Leão e a Joia é uma fábula divertida e irreverente sobre os conflitos entre valores africanos e costumes europeus, entre o desejo das mulheres de serem liv...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly half a century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Dr. Menka s...

Soyinka's greatest novel ... No one else can write such a book' - Ben Okri'A lion of African literature' - Financial Times'Chronicles is many things at once: a caustic political satire, a murder mystery, a conspiracy story and a deeply felt lament for the spirit of a nation' - Juan Gabriel Vásquez, New York TimesTo Doctor Menka's horror, some cunning entrepreneur has decided to sell body parts from his hospital for use in ritualistic practices...

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In Nigeria, das wegen Vorwahlen zur Präsidentschaft außer Rand und Band ist, verkauft ein gerissener Geschäftemacher aus einem Krankenhaus gestohlene Körperteile für rituelle Praktiken. Der Chirurg Dr. Menka, teilt seine grausige Entdeckung mit seinem ältesten College-Freund, dem Lebemann und Ingenieur Duyole Pitan-Payne. Dieser ist im Begriff, einen prestigeträchtigen Posten als Energieberater bei den Vereinten Nationen in New York anzunehmen...

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's debut novel about a group of young Nigerian intellectuals trying to come to grips with themselves and their changing country. First published in 1965.They are the interpreters. Drawn together by their hopes, loves, dissatisfactions, and the daily lives and deaths around them, five young Nigerian intellectuals evoke a new lost and found generation. From their wild drinking bouts at the Club Cambana to their individ...

A political novel about the dangers of corruption, greed, and the desire for power. This is Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's follow-up to his acclaimed debut novel The Interpreters.In an unnamed country in Africa, Ofeyi writes propaganda jingles for the National Cocoa Corporation. As a part of his job, he is sent to Aiyeru, a small coastal village whose geographic landscape has largely kept the village insulated from the government and its corrup...

Inmitten überwucherter Hügel, umgeben von dichtem Unterholz und steil abfallenden Felswänden liegt Aké. Der lärmerfüllte Markt und der verschwenderische, nach Mangos und Zitronenblättern duftende Obstgarten sind ebenso faszinierend wir das Pfarreigehöft mit seinem geheimnisvollen Pferdestall. Nach den aufregenden Geschichten der Mutter von Waldgeistern und wiederkehrenden Toten finden die Kinder Ruhe im vertrauenserweckenden Gesicht von Mrs B,...

The first Black person ever to win the Nobel Prize in Literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly half a century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation ("You don't see things the same way when you encounter a voice like that" -Toni Morrison).In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's ...

A towering figure in world literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly one-half century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking, fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. ("You don't see things the same way when you encounter a voice like that."-Toni Morrison)In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's hospital for use in ritu...

A gruesome discovery, and an honest man trying to hold on to his humanity - and his life - forms the mystery at the heart of a work which is both a gripping whodunit and a sharply satirical state of the nation novel.At once a scathing indictment of an opportunistic and avaricious political elite and a paean to the spirit of people in their charge, Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People On Earth is provocative, profoundly compassionate...

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A towering figure in world literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly one-half century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking, fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. ("You don't see things the same way when you encounter a voice like that."-Toni Morrison)In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's hospital for use in ritu...

The plays included in this volume are: "Death and the King's Horseman" by Wole Soyinka, "Anowa" by Ama Ata Aidoo, "The Chattering and the Song" by Femo Osofisan, "The Rise and SHine of Comrade Fiasco" by Andrew Whalley, "Woza Albert!" by Percy Mtwa, et al, and "The Other War" by Alemseged Tesfai.

More than a major figure in the world of literature, Wole Soyinka is a courageous voice for human rights, democracy, and freedom. This work presents a chronicle of his thrilling public life, a meditation on justice and tyranny, and a mesmerising testament to a ravaged yet hopeful land.

An intimate reflection on culture and tradition, creativity and power, that draws on a lifetime's commitment to aesthetic encounter

Indossando maschere da grande cantore africano, rielaborando gli eterni linguaggi dell'epica e fondendo storia e miti dell'Africa del passato e del presente, Soyinka lancia un ferreo invito alla lotta contro le diseguaglianze razziali del Sud Africa. La voce recitante si autodrammatizza nel poemetto, ricorrendo a saluti, invocazioni, preghiere, riferimenti a musiche e danze. E traccia così una mappa per una nuova cultura africana.