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1. www.bbc.com › culture › articleWole Soyinka: The books that really change the world? - BBC

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   Oct 6, 2021 · Soyinka deplores the state of contemporary Nigerian society; he has spoken of "cannibalism, of a strange kind, … a society which is actually eating itself, sort of self-directed cannibalism and ...

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2. www.thefreelibrary.com › Soyinka+or+AchebeSoyinka or Achebe? Who is Africa's literary greatest of all time?

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   Jun 15, 2024 · Citations: Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka are widely recognised as pioneers of Africa's literary rebirth. I call it a rebirth because the Nile Valley civilisation, which emerged along the banks of the River Nile in Egypt around 3100 B.C.E (Before Common Era or Before Current Era or Before Christian Era), had developed hieroglyphics, a writing ...

3. thebookerprizes.com › the-booker-library › featuresThe four generations: Nigerian literature, the Booker Prize ...

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   Mar 31, 2023 · The first generation of Nigerian authors began writing between the 1950s and the 1970s. They include Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi and Gabriel Okara, to name a few. They were mostly male writers, with the exception of a few women such as Adaora Lily Ulasi and Flora Nwapa. (Fun fact: Nwapa set up her own publishing house to ...

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5. link.springer.com › chapter › 10Wole Soyinka: The Pan-African Literary Practice | SpringerLink

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   Feb 13, 2018 · Soyinka’s The Interpreters, though originally published by André Deutsch in 1965, was republished in 1970, in paperback, by Heinemann Educational Books. The novel as I have argued elsewhere embodies the social character of the postcolonial cities of Lagos, and Ibadan where Soyinka, along with Ulli Beier, John Pepper Clark, and Eskia Mphalele founded the Mbari literary club.

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6. www.monitor.co.ug › uganda › lifestyleSoyinka or Achebe? Who is Africa’s literary greatest of all ...

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   Jun 15, 2024 · The writings of Achebe and Soyinka are viewed through the prisms of the pan-African agenda, the Nigerian nation-state agenda, and the ethnic-national agenda. We also read about their responses to ...

7. www.bbc.com › culture › articleWas Chinua Achebe Africa’s most influential author? - BBC

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   Following Achebe’s death, Wole Soyinka (winner of Africa’s first Nobel Prize in literature) and John Pepper Clark – two of the ‘pioneer quartet of contemporary Nigerian literature ...

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   What is Soyinka's view on contemporary Nigerian society?

   • Soyinka deplores the state of contemporary Nigerian society; he has spoken of "cannibalism, of a strange kind, … a society which is actually eating itself, sort of self-directed cannibalism and the deterioration of our humanity".

   Wole Soyinka: The books that really change the world? | BBC

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   Who was the author of 'Achebe'?

   • The series published the likes of Bessie Head, Ousmane Sembène, Ayi Kwei Armah as well as the Booker-shortlisted and winning writers Nadine Gordimer and Doris Lessing. But a  key  factor in the Nigerian story was the appointment as editorial advisor of Achebe, who from 1962 encouraged Nigerian writers to submit and publish their work.

   The four generations: Nigerian literature, the Booker Prize and beyond

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   Why did Achebe write a novel?

   • In his early fictions, Achebe sought to valorize the temporal depth of Igbo culture, the rhythms of precolonial social life, and the fluidity of subjective identity, in order to undermine the dominant Hegelian idea that Africa was a blank slate before European conquest.

   Between Realism and Modernism: Chinua Achebe and the Making of Af…

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   Did Soyinka get a Nobel Prize?

   • But Soyinka has always lived on the political brink. His 1986 Nobel Prize, his sheer stature, may or may not have afforded him some protection. Others have not been lucky: Chronicles is dedicated to two Nigerian political activists, the journalist Dele Giwa and lawyer and politician Bola Ige, "both cut down by assassins".

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   Why was Chinua Achebe awarded the booker man International Prize?

   • The award of the Booker Man International Prize for Literature to Chinua Achebe in 2007 was perhaps the single most important acknowledgment of the role he had played in the emergence of African literature and the transformation of world literature in the twentieth century.

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   Why did Soyinka leave Nigeria?

   • It is quite another thing to devote a lifetime to needling Nigerian regimes and other elite cliques, as Soyinka has done: during the Nigerian civil war he spent 22 months in prison, and in 1994 he fled the country after enraging Sani Abacha, a military dictator who pronounced a death sentence on him in absentia.

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   Oct 31, 2019 · In “Chinua Achebe and the Invention of African Literature,” I argued that Achebe was the person who invented African literature (Gikandi 2001). This contention has irked other writers of his generation, and it has been vigorously contested by numerous critics who find it unhelpful in positioning Achebe's work “in literary and cultural terms” (Morrison 2014 , 31).