This volume of essays, articles, addresses and interventions by the Nigerian poet, playwright and novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, contains work written over a period of some 25 years and includes much rare material. The introduction by Boidon Jeyifo sets the essays in the context of the development of Soyinka's work, thus providing a comprehensive insight into the intellectual background of his creative writing, and establishes the relation between Soyinka's ideas and contemporary thought in Africa. Soyinka's plays include "The Jero Plays", "The Road" and "Madmen and Specialists". His most recently published works are "From Zia with Love" and "A Scourge of Hyacinths".
- ISBN10 041362580X
- ISBN13 9780413625809
- Publish Date 12 July 1993 (first published July 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 June 1995
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 368
- Language English