Word: soyinkaã
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...wasn’t for Soyinka??€™s influence, Gates says he wouldn’t be a professor today...
...more than 30 published works, the Academy made special mention of Soyinka??€™s plays, in particular A Dance of the Forests (1963) and Death and the King’s Horseman...
During that struggle, Soyinka??€™s colleague, Ken Saro-Wiwa, who advocated the autonomy of the Ogoni people and fair distribution of the nation’s wealth, was arrested on false charges of treason and murder and hanged with eight of his companions...
...order to begin to understand Soyinka??€™s art, one must be familiar with the cultural and political environments of which he is a product...
...Soyinka??€™s activism has resulted more than once in his arrest and imprisonment. After the outbreak of civil war in Nigeria in 1967, Soyinka tried to negotiate a cease-fire with the Ibo secessionists. The government accused him of conspiring with the rebels and detained him, without trial, at the notorious Kaduna prison in northern Nigeria where he spent two years in solitary confinement...