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Death and the King's Horseman

Wole Soyinka

Print on Demand (Paperback) (A&C Black, March 15, 2003)

Elesin Oba, the King's Horseman, has a single destiny. When the King dies, he must commit ritual suicide and lead his King's favorite horse and dog through the passage to the world of the ancestors. A British colonial officer, Pilkings, intervenes. "This play, by the winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature, asks: "On the authority of what gods" the white aliens rupture a world. It puts exciting political theatre back on the agenda ... a masterpiece of 20th century drama."-Guardian "The action of the play is as inevitable and eloquent as in Antigone: a clash of values and cultures so fundamental that tragedy (ensues): a tragedy for each individual, each tribe."-Daily Telegraph "A transfixing work of modern world drama."-Independent

Collected Plays: Volume 1: A Dance of the Forests; The Swamp Dwellers; The Strong Breed; The Road; The Bacchae of Euripides: Vol 1

Wole Soyinka

Unknown Binding (Oxford University Press, March 15, 1804)

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Death and the king's horseman

Wole Soyinka

Hardcover (Eyre Methuen, March 15, 1975)

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Madmen and specialists

Wole Soyinka

Hardcover (Methuen, March 15, 1971)

A humorous story about the day the wind blew so fiercely that it lifted two children's mum and dad into the sky, leaving them to fend for themselves. Illustrated in full colour throughout.

You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir by Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka

Paperback (Random House Trade Paperbacks, March 15, 1864)

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You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir

Wole Soyinka

Hardcover (London : Methuen in association with Bookcraft, March 15, 2007)

Physical description; 626 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., maps ; 25 cm. Subjects; Soyinka, Wole 1934. Authors, Nigerian - 20th century - Biography. Political prisoners - Nigeria - Biography. Political activists - Nigeria - Biography.