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Martin Banham

Drama, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Performing Arts

Clifford Davidson

Drama, Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Religion

Femi Osofisan

Drama, Performing Arts

Jane Plastow

Drama, Performing Arts

Wole Soyinka

Drama, Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Literary Criticism

The first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1986), Wole Soyinka, a Yoruba from western Nigeria, is a distinguished playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, social critic, political activist, and literary scholar. Although his literary oeuvre is varied, Soyinka is best known internationally for his poli....[more]

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Drama, Language Arts & Disciplines

Born in Limuru, Kenya, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o attended both missionary schools and schools run by Kenya's Kikuyu tribe. In 1964, he graduated from Uganda's Makerere College and then did advance work at the University of Leeds in England. In 1972, Ngugi became head of the literature department at the University of Nairobi in....[more]