Wole Soyinka

A play based on events in Oyo, Nigeria in 1946, exploring the clash between Yoruba tradition and British colonial interference when the king dies and his horseman is expected to commit ritual suicide.

A dark allegorical novel set against the backdrop of the Nigerian Civil War, following Ofeyi's attempt to protect a utopian farming commune from violent forces. Soyinka's most politically explicit novel.

Soyinka's luminous memoir of childhood in Abeokuta, Nigeria, capturing the world of a Yoruba parsonage in colonial times, including his mother's tax-resistance protests.

A group of young Nigerian intellectuals — engineers, journalists, academics — navigate a corrupt post-independence Lagos, trying to find meaning. Soyinka's dense, allusive prose draws on Yoruba mythology.