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Soyinka, Wole
About Wole Soyinka
Interviews
Bentar, Max. “Interview: Wole Soyinka.” Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, 25 Jun. 2015
Jaggi, Maya. “The Voice of Conscience.” The Guardian, 28 May 2007
Singer, Ron. “Nigerian Futures: Interview with Wole Soyinka.” Open Democracy, 24 Aug. 2006
Jaffrey, Zia. "Wole Soyinka: 'This Regime Just Does Not Believe in Innocence'." The Progressive, 1997
Beier, Ulli. "Wole Soyinka on Yoruba Religion." Isokan Yoruba Magazine, vol. 3, no. 3, 1997
Reviews
Taft, Maggie. “Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions.” Booklist, vol. 116, no. 4, 2019
Adekoya, Segun. “Two Chains, One Choice: Soyinka and the Quest for Freedom from the Twin Plagues of Political and Religious Maladies in Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known.” Journal of Pan African Studies, vol. 8, no. 5, 2015
Harlow, B. “Of Africa.” Choice, vol. 50, no. 8, 2013
O’Malley, J. P. “Wole Soyinka Telling It As It Is.” New African, no. 523, 2012
Abbas, Fatin. “Dining With Devils.” Nation, vol. 282, no. 21, 2006
Irobi, Esiaba. “Barbs: A Study of Satire in the Plays of Wole Soyinka.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 36, no. 2, 2005
Newell, Stephanie. “Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, and Postcolonialism.” Africa, vol. 74, no. 4, 2004
Johae, Antony. “Wole Soyinka’s ‘Gulliver’ Swift Transposed.” Comparative Literature, vol. 53, no. 1, 2001
Heger Boyle, Elizabeth. “Gesture Without Motion? Poetry and Politics in Africa. A Review Essay on The Burden of Memory, The Muse of Forgiveness by Wole Soyinka.” Human Rights Review, vol. 2, no. 1, 2000
Wright, Derek. “Wole Soyinka: An Introduction to His Writing.” Research in African Literatures, no. 2, 1990
Criticism
Odebunmi, Akin, and K. K. Olaniyan. “Indexicality and Characterization in Wole Soyinka’s Ake.” Essays on Language, Communication and Literature in Africa, Odebunmi et al. (eds.), 2016
Fioupou, Christiane. “Wole Soyinka’s ‘Armoury of Creativity’: Cultural Melange from Opera Wonyosi to Guerrilla Theatre.” Cultural Mélange in Aesthetic Practices, Greenall and Mitchell (eds.), 2015
Gibbs, James. “The Portrait of the Artist as a Younger Traveller: A Reader’s Response to Wole Soyinka’s You Must Set Forth at Dawn.” Engaging with Literature of Commitment, vol.1, Collier et al. (eds.), 2012
Adeyemi, Sola. "Interpreting the Interpreters: The Narratives of the Postcolony in Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters." African Literatures and Beyond: A Florilegium, David and Lindfors (eds.), 2013
Msiska, Mpalive–Hangson. "Cultural Studies, Power, and the Idea of the Hegemonic in Wole Soyinka's Works." African Literatures and Beyond: A Florilegium, David and Lindfors (eds.), 2013
Ajayi, Adewale. "Marginality, Liminal Existence, and the Human Condition in Wole Soyinka's The Road." The Image of the Road in Literature, Media, and Society II, Kaplan (ed.), 2012
Chew, Shirley. "Putting Freedom to the Test: Wole Soyinka's You Must Set Forth at Dawn." Engaging with Literature of Commitment, vol. 1, Collier et al. (eds.), 2012
Jeyifo, Biodun. Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, and Postcolonialism, 2004
Lindfors, Bernth and Bala Kothandaraman (eds.). The Writer as Myth Maker: South Asian Perspectives on Wole Soyinka, 2004
Narasimhaiah, C. D. "Where Angels Fear to Tread: Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka as Critics of the African Scene." The Writer as Myth Maker: South Asian Perspectives on Wole Soyinka, Kothandaraman and Lindfors (eds.), 2004
Jeyifo, Biodun. Perspectives on Wole Soyinka: Freedom and Complexity, 2001
Works
Autobiography/Life Writing
You Must Set Forth at Dawn (2006)
Isara: A Voyage around Essay (1990)
Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: A Memoir 1946-65 (1989)
Aké: The Years of Childhood (1981)
The Man Died: Prison Notes (1972)
Novels
Season of Anomy (1972)
The Interpreters (1964)
Short Story Collections
Madame Etienne's Establishment (1960)
Egbe's Sworn Enemy (1960)
A Tale of Two (1958)
Poetry Collections
Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known (2002)
Early Poems (1997)
Mandela's Earth and other Poems (1988)
Ogun Abibiman (1976)
A Shuttle in the Crypt (1971)
A Big Airplane Crashed into The Earth (1969)
Idanre and other Poems (1967)
Telephone Conversation (1963)
Plays/ Scripts
Alapata Apata (2011)
King Baabu (2001)
The Beatification of Area Boy (1996)
From Zia with Love (1992)
Childe Internationale (1987)
A Play of Giants (1984)
Requiem for a Futurologist (1983)
Opera Wonyosi (1977)
Death and the King's Horseman (1975)
Jero's Metamorphosis (1973)
Camwood on the Leaves (1973)
The Bacchae of Euripides (1973)
Madmen and Specialists (1970)
The Road (1965)
Kongi's Harvest (1964)
Before the Blackout (1964)
The Strong Breed (1964)
My Father's Burden (1960)
A Dance of the Forests (1960)
A Quality of Violence (1959)
The Swamp Dwellers (1958)
The Invention (1957)
Keffi's Birthday Treat (1954)
Essays/Articles/Non-Ficton/Short Stories
"The Danger of Naming Art Before it Has Been Made." Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2020
“I Am a Fundamentalist of Freedom.” Journal of the African Literature Association, vol. 11, no. 1, 2017
“From Chibok with Love.” Journal of Pan African Studies, vol. 8, no. 5, 2015
“Remembering Ali Mazrui.” Transition, no. 117, 2015
“A Name Is More Than the Tyranny of Taste.” Black Camera, vol. 5, no. 1, 2013
“Twelve Canticles for the Zealot ….” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 79, no. 3, 2011
"Wole Soyinka on Obama's Choice." The Root, 14 Jul. 2009
“From Ghetto to Garrison: A Chronic Case of Orisunitis.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 30, no. 4, 1999
“To an Expanding World of Mind-Closure.” Diogenes, vol. 44, no. 176, 1996
"Ethics, Ideology and the Critic." Criticism and Ideology, Petersen (ed.), 1986
"This Past Must Adress Its Present." Nobelprize.org, 8 Dec. 1986
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Wole Soyinka and Chris Abani in Conversation. YouTube, 9 Oct. 2020
One-On-One with Prof. Wole Soyinka. YouTube, 4 Jun. 2020
Wole Soyinka: ‘Islam Is not in Danger’'. YouTube, 12 Jul. 2014
Conversation with Wole Soyinka on His Work and Life. YouTube, 30 Jul. 2011
Wole Soyinka: Living Legend on African Voices. CNN, 3 Aug. 2009
Wole Soyinka, 17 April 2006: Nigeria's Political Tumult. YouTube, 2009
Wole Soyinka Interview. Nobelprize.org, 28 Apr. 2005
Conversations with History: Wole Soyinka, YouTube. Oct. 2002