Selected Poems: A Shuttle in the Crypt, Idanre, Mandela's Earth - Softcover

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Wole Soyinka - playwright, novelist, poet and polemical essayist - was born in Nigeria in 1934. Educated there and at Leeds University, he worked in the British theatre before returning to West Africa in 1960. Soyinka's career as a political activist in exile is inseparable from his writing which has earned him world-wide acclaim. In 1986 he became the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is now Woodruff Professor of the Arts at Emory University, Atlanta.