Bücher von Wole Soyinka

One long poem and an eclectic mix of short poems from the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and polemical essayist Wole Soyinka.Wole Soyinka is one of Africa's outstanding writers. He is already well known in the United States as a playwright; two of his plays, The Trials of Brother Jero and Kongi's Harvest, were produced off-Broadway in New York. A number of his plays and a novel have been published but so far only a handful of his poems have appeared in anthologies and journals. This collection consists of a long poem and a number of shorter ones. Idanre, the long one, was written especially for the Commonwealth (British) Arts Festival (1965) and is a creation myth of Ogun, the Yoruba God of Iron. The other poems range from a meditation on the news of the October Massacres in Northern Nigeria (1966) to a wry lament "To My First White Hairs" and the love poem "Psalm."

Written in 1971, Madmen and Specialists is one of Soyinka's most excoriating portrayals of abusers and abused in the new Nigeria ushered in by Biafra and the civil war of 1967-70. Set in the "surgery" of a doctor, the play is populated by mendicants and the "insane," all fodder for "experimentation" by a shape-shifting doctor whose experiments may be more sinister than they at first appear.

Inmitten überwucherter Hügel, umgeben von dichtem Unterholz und steil abfallenden Felswänden, liegt Aké. Der lärmerfüllte Markt und der verschwenderische, nach Mangos und Zitronenblättern duftende Obstgarten sind ebenso faszinierend wie das Pfarreigehöft mit seinem geheimnisvollen Pferdestall. Nach den aufregenden Geschichten der Mutter von Waldgeistern und wiederkehrenden Toten finden die Kinder Ruhe im vertrauenerweckenden Gesicht von Mrs B, der Frau des Buchhändlers.Mit drei Jahren verlangt der junge Wole, die Schule besuchen zu dürfen, gebannt von den Buchstaben in seinen Büchern. Sein Elternhaus, intellektueller Nährboden Akés, bestimmt seine Kindheit, in der der heraufdämmernde Weltkrieg sich einreiht neben der ebenso großen Sorge um das erste Paar Schuhe.

A wholly fresh interpretation of the timeless play by a Nobel Prize-winning author.