Wole Soyinka

Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka Hon. FRSL (Yoruba: Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé Ṣóyíinká; a wɔwoo no Kitawonsa bosome da a ɛtɔ so dummiɛnsa wɔ afe apem ahankron ne aduasa-nan mu(1934)), din a nnipa bebree de nim no ne Wole Soyinka (a wɔbo no [wɔlé ʃójinká]), yɛ Alatani (Nigerian) ahwɛgoroɔ twerɛfoɔ, ayɛsɛm twerɛfoɔ, awensɛm twerɛfoɔ, ne atwerɛtoam twerɛfoɔ wɔ brofo kasa mu. Ɔnyaa kasadwini abasobɔdeɛ a edimu wɔ, afe apem ahankron ne aduowɔtwe nsia (1986) mu, ɔne sub-Sharan bibini a wadi kan anya saa anuomoyamhyɛ no wɔ saa nkyekyɛmu no mu.^[1]

Wɔatwerɛ nsɛm wei ɛwɔ Asante kasa mu

nnipa

bɔbeasu	male
ɔman a ofiri mu	Nigeria
name in native language	Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé Ṣóyíinká
da a wɔwoo no	13 Kitawonsa 1934
beae a wɔwoo no	Ogun State
maamɛ	Grace Eniola Soyinka
sibling	Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka
child	Olaokun Soyinka
native language	Yoruba
languages spoken, written or signed	Brɔfo, Nigerian Pidgin
writing language	British English
field of work	performing arts
dibea	UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
educated at	University of Leeds, University of Ibadan, University of London, Abeokuta Grammar School
ethnic group	Yoruba people
archives at	Leeds University Library
member of	American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society of Literature
wɔn wɛbsaet	https://www.wolesoyinkafoundation.org/
documentation files at	SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts

Wole Soyinka

Wɔwoo Soyinka wɔ Abeokuta^[2] too Yoruba abusua bi mu. Wɔ afe apem ahankron ne aduonum-nan (1954) mu no, ɔkɔɔ aban kɔlɛɛge wɔ Ibadan, University College Ibadan ne university of Leeds a ɛwɔ Ngyerɛsi.^[3] Owiee ne adesua wɔ Nigeria ne Uk no, ɔne Royal Court Theatre a ɛwɔ London yɛɛ adwuma. Ɔkɔ twerɛɛ ahwɛgoroɔ wɔ saa aman mmienu no mu, ɔyɛɛ bi wɔ beaeɛ a yɛhwɛ ahwɛgoroɔ ne kasafidie so (radio). Ɔdii akotene wɔ Nigeria amanyɔsɛm abakɔsɛm mu ne ɛhɔ dawurobɔ dwumadie fa wɔn mfahodie firi British foɔ a wɔbɛdii wɔn so no hɔ.

Nnwuma

Ahwɛgoroɔ

• Keffi's Birthday Treat (1954)
• The Invention (1957)
• The Swamp Dwellers (1958)
• A Quality of Violence (1959)
• The Lion and the Jewel (1959)
• The Trials of Brother Jero (1960)
• A Dance of the Forests (1960)
• My Father's Burden (1960)
• The Strong Breed (1964)
• Before the Blackout (1964)
• Kongi's Harvest (1964)
• The Road (1965)
• Madmen and Specialists (1970)
• The Bacchae of Euripides (1973)
• Camwood on the Leaves (1973)
• Jero's Metamorphosis (1973)
• Death and the King's Horseman (1975)
• Opera Wonyosi (1977)
• Requiem for a Futurologist (1983)
• A Play of Giants (1984)
• Childe Internationale (1987)
• From Zia with Love (1992)
• The Detainee (radio play)
• A Scourge of Hyacinths (radio play)
• The Beatification of Area Boy (1996)
• Document of Identity (radio play, 1999)
• King Baabu (2001)
• Etiki Revu Wetin
• Alapata Apata (2011)
• "Thus Spake Orunmila" (in Sixty-Six Books (2011)

Ayɛsɛm

• The Interpreters (1965)
• Season of Anomy (1973)
• Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth (Bookcraft, Nigeria; Bloomsbury, UK; Pantheon, US, 2021)

Anasesɛm atiatia bi

• A Tale of Two (1958)
• Egbe's Sworn Enemy (1960)
• Madame Etienne's Establishment (1960)

Memoirs

• The Man Died: Prison Notes (1972)
• Aké: The Years of Childhood (1981)
• Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: a memoir 1945–1965 (1989)
• Ìsarà: A Voyage around Essay (1989)
• You Must Set Forth at Dawn (2006)

Poetry collections

• Telephone Conversation (1963) (appeared in Modern Poetry in Africa)
• Idanre and other poems (1967)
• A Big Airplane Crashed into The Earth (original title Poems from Prison) (1969)
• A Shuttle in the Crypt (1971)
• Ogun Abibiman (1976)
• Mandela's Earth and other poems (1988)
• Early Poems (1997)
• Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known (2002)

Essays

• "Towards a True Theater" (1962)
• Culture in Transition (1963)
• Neo-Tarzanism: The Poetics of Pseudo-Transition
• A Voice That Would Not Be Silenced
• Art, Dialogue, and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture (1988)
• From Drama and the African World View (1976)
• Myth, Literature, and the African World (1976)
• The Blackman and the Veil (1990)
• The Credo of Being and Nothingness (1991)
• The Burden of Memory – The Muse of Forgiveness (1999)
• A Climate of Fear (the BBC Reith Lectures 2004, audio and transcripts)
• New Imperialism (2009)
• Of Africa (2012)
• Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions (2019)

Films

• Kongi's Harvest
• Culture in Transition
• Blues for a Prodigal

Translations

• The Forest of a Thousand Demons: A Hunter’s Saga (1968; a translation of D. O. Fagunwa's Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmalẹ̀)
• In the Forest of Olodumare (2010; a translation of D. O. Fagunwa's Igbo Olodumare)

Beaeɛ a menyaa mmoa firiiɛ

1. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/africa-nobel-prize-winners-list-191116072848445.html
2. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/25/wole-soyinka-this-book-is-my-gift-to-nigeria
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=NzO0QgAACAAJ&q=wole+soyinka