Art, Dialogue and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture

This volume of essays, articles, addresses and interventions by the Nigerian poet, playwright and novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, contains work written over a period of some 25 years and includes much rare material. The introduction by Boidon Jeyifo sets the essays in the context of the development of Soyinka's work, thus providing a comprehensive insight into the intellectual background of his creative writing, and establishes the relation between Soyinka's ideas and contemporary thought in Africa. Soyinka's plays include "The Jero Plays", "The Road" and "Madmen and Specialists". His most recently published works are "From Zia with Love" and "A Scourge of Hyacinths".