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Soyinka Plays: 2: A Play of Giants; From Zia with Love; A Scourge of Hyacinths; The Beatification of Area Boy

Wole Soyinka

'Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest' - New York Times Book Review

A Play of Giants is a savage satire on some of the best-known dictators of our time (including Idi Amin); it brings together a group of dictatorial African leaders at bay in an embassy in New York attempting to make decisions together. Its theatrical predecessors include: Genet's The Balcony and Brecht's Arturo Ui.

From Zia with Love and A Scourge of Hyacinths; When the Military decrees that a crime carrying a prison sentence now retroactively warrants summary execution, confusion and fear permeate a society where the brutality and injustice of military rule is parodied by life inside prison - based on events in Nigeria in the early 1980s Wole Soyinka's stage play From Zia with Love and radio play A Scourge of Hyacinths, were produced in the early 90s.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Methuen Drama
  • Publish Date: Feb 4th, 1999
  • Pages: 368
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.81in - 5.06in - 0.74in - 0.77lb
  • EAN: 9780413732606
  • Categories: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

About the Author

Soyinka, Wole: -

Wole Soyinka is a playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist born in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1934.

Soyinka won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature with his debut novel, The Interpreters, becoming the first-ever African laureate and has since won many other prizes such as the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award in 2009 and the Anisfield-Wolf book Award, Lifetime Achievement in 2012.

A prominent political activist, Soyinka was imprisoned for nearly two years during the Nigerian Civil War and was later exiled. He continues to fight against government corruption and oppression worldwide.