AFRICA SOCIETY
NOBEL LAUREATE
NOBEL LAUREATE
WOLE SOYINKA
[Introduction] [Teaching Soyinka] [Essays etc] [Interviews] [Newspaper Articles]
* The Africa Society's Profile of Wole Soyinka (1999)
http://www.ualberta.ca/~afso/documents/soyink.pdf* Wole Soyinka (Berkeley University, 1998)
Stanford S. Elberg Lecturer
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/Elberg/Soyinka/* Wole Soyinka (Stanford University, 1997)
Stanford Presidential Lectures & Symposia in the Humanities & Arts
http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/soyinka/index.html* "A Dramatic Life" (John D. Thomas, Emory University, 1996)
http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_MAGAZINE/spring97/wole.html* Wole Soyinka: Bibliography and Critical Texts (Stanford University)
http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/soyinka/biblio.html* Wole Soyinka Study Guide (Paul Brian, Washington State University)
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/anglophone/soyinka.html* Excerpts from Texts by Wole Soyinka (Stanford University)
http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lectures/soyinka/excerpts.html* Modern African Literature (Azfar Hussain, Washington State University)
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/anglophone/africanlit.html* World Literature in English of India, Africa, and the Caribbean (WSU)
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/anglophone/index.html* "Wole Soyinka's 'Hamlet': (Nigeria's a Prison)" (Abra Reid, Brown U.)
Brown University Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/soyinka/hamlet.html* "Reparations as a key to real social justice," The Burden of Memory, The Muse of Forgiveness
Reviewed by Laolu Akande (The Philadelphia Enquirer, February 7, 1999)
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Feb/07/books/MEMRY07.htm* Review by Philip Tinari of The Burden of Memory, The Muse of Forgiveness
(The Chronicle Online, February 26, 1999).
http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/chronicle/1999/02/26/r10Theburden.html
Essays, Chapters, Speeches, Articles by Wole Soyinka
* "This Past Must Address Its Present," Nobel lecture, December 8, 1986.
Institut International du Th‚atre, Paris, France.
http://www.nobel.se/laureates/literature-1986-lecture.html* "Globalization and Diversity - Conflict or Harmony?," February 2, 1999
Wake Forest University Founders' Day Convocation Address, North Carolina.
http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/soyinkatext.htm* The Burden of Memory: The Muse of Forgiveness, Excerpt from Chapter One
(Oxford University Press)
http://salon1999.com/books/sneaks/1999/01/26sneaks.html* "Redesigning a Nation"
Wole Soyinka's first lecture in Nigeria (Mail and Guardian, October 28, 1988)
http://www.mg.co.za/mg/news/98oct2/28oc-soyinka1.html* "The colonized present," Review of The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (Oxford, 1996)
http://idt.net/~sheba/nigeria/nation2.htm* "A Nation's Season of Deadly Farce" (United Democratic Front of Nigeria. Statement entered at the Congressional International Relations SubCommittee on Africa Hearing on Nigeria, September 18, 1997).
http://www.odili.net/feature/farce.html* "Nigerian 'doublespeak'" (by Wole Soyinka)
Electronic Mail and Guardian (South Africa, July 15, 1997).
http://www.mg.co.za/mg/news/97Jul1/15jul-soyinka.html* "Nigeria's Great Charade" (July 18, 1997)
http://www.sn.apc.org/wmail/issues/970718/NEWS21.html* "The rot in Nigeria" (by Wole Soyinka)
Electronic Mail and Guardian (South Africa, March 21, 1997)
http://www.mg.za/mg/news/97mar2/21mar-nigeria.htmlSLECTED INTERVIEWS WITH WOLE SOYINKA
* "Take a stand, Mandela!," Interview by Bartholom†us Grill (South Africa)
http://www.mg.co.za/mg/news/wolesoyinka.html* Excerpts from Interviews by Wole Soyinka (Stanford University)
http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/soyinka/soyon.html* "Writing, Theatre Arts, and Political Activism: Conversations with Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka" by Harry Krelski, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley (1998)
This site contains video clips of Soyinka answering the questions.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/Elberg/Soyinka/soyinka-con0.html* Wole Soyinka in New York State Writers Institute, Writers Online: Exploring the Past to Explain the Present series, Volume 1, No. 3 (Spring 1997), 27-28.
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/olv1n3.html* Why I Am a Secular Humanist: An Interview with Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka
by Norm R. Allen, Jr., Executive Director of African-Americans for Humanism
Free Inquiry Magazine, Volume 17, Number 4 (1997).
http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/soyinka_17_4.htmlNEWSPAPER ARTICLES ON WOLE SOYINKA
* "Nobel winner will headline Africa Society Conference" (Satya Das, The Edmonton Journal, Wednesday, September 15, 1999): B4.
* "Irony frames the portraits of our era: Top African writer will speak here have you heard" (Paula Simon, The Edmonton Journal, Sunday, September 19, 1999): A14.
* "Nigerian leader urges exiled Nobel Laureate to return home"
(Associated Press, September 28, 1998).
http://www.freedomforum.org/international/1998/9/28nigeria.asap* "Treason Charges Against Soyinka and Others"
Human Rights Watch/Africa (13 March 1997)
http://gopher.igc.apc.org:5000/00/int/hrw/africa/Nigeria/17* "If World Won't help, we'll fight alone"
Weekly Mail and Guardian (March 20, 1997).
http://www.sn.apc.org/wmail/issues/970320/NEWS38.html* "Author Outlines Africa's Agony,"
Electric Times Union (March 6, 1997)
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/timesun.html* "Tip on Impending Arrest Lets Writer Slip Out of Nigeria,"
Electric Times Union (November 22, 1994)
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/timesun.html* "Nigerian Nobel Prize-Winner Uses Pen and Voice to Campaign for Democracy"
The Boston Globe (November 21, 1993)
http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/nobel/1993/1993f.html* "Wole Soyinka's Gift to the World,"
The Boston Globe (October 26, 1986)
http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/nobel/1986/1986c.htmlCopyright: The Africa Society, October, 1999.
Compiled by: Dr. Malinda S. Smith, Africa Society Coordinator