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Free Thinking: Wole Soyinka's Writing

Wole Soyinka's Writing

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Ben Okri, Louisa Egbunike and Oladipo Agboluaje discuss Wole Soyinka's life and work.

Novelist Ben Okri, academic Louisa Egbunike and playwright Oladipo Agboluaje discuss Wole Soyinka's play Death and the King's Horseman and his life of activism with Matthew Sweet.

Novelist Ben Okri, playwright Oladipo Agboluaje and academic Louisa Egbunike join Matthew Sweet to look at the influential writing of Nigerian playwright and author Wole Soyinka - and specifically at his play 1975 Death and the King's Horseman.  In 1986 he became the first African author to be given the Nobel Prize in Literature.  He has worked teaching at many universities in the USA, and began playwriting after studying at University College Ibadan, and then at Leeds University and working as a play reader for the Royal Court Theatre.   

You can find a playlist of discussions devoted to Landmarks of Culture on the Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01jwn44 
A BBC TV documentary about the African novel presented by David Olusoga is screening in August. 

Extract from Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka features Danny Sapani as Elesin.  Produced by Pauline Harris for the BBC.  First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 13th July 2014  

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