Introduction: African Politics and Letters after Soyinka's Nobel Prize

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dc.contributor.authorAdeoti, Gbemisola
dc.contributor.authorEvwierhoma, Mabel
dc.coverage.geographicalNigeriaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-22T12:21:16Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-27T14:59:06Z
dc.date.available2014-08-22T12:21:16Z
dc.date.available2018-10-27T14:59:06Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.departmentEnglishen_US
dc.description.abstractAs it has been well acknowledged across the globe, Wole Soyinka is a leading figure when it comes to assessing Africa's contribution to world literature in contemporary times. He is, no doubt, a committed writer whose literary oeuvre blends in laudable measure, political engagement with artistic virtuosity. Here is a writer who is also a political activist, social crusader, cultural philosopher, literary theorist, mythopoet, dramatist, director, actor, film producer, essayist, critic and translator among other designations. Soyinka's works well exemplify the interventionist role of the African writer in politics, not only because the literature itself is born in the labour room of politics, but also because of the historical role of midwife constantly placed on the shoulders of statesmen, philosophers and intellectuals (among whom writers are) in the birth of a liberated and truly developing continent. Hence, his arts and politics leap beyond the text into the bewildering realm of everyday reality confronting absurdities on the streets as well as in the State House. Soyinka's adroit exploration of the indigenous African and Western artistic resources, written and oral, in this regard, has been well accounted for in literature. This much was not lost on the judges of the Nobel Prize when he was awarded that of Literature in 1986.en_US
dc.facultiesArtsen_US
dc.format.filetypePDFen_US
dc.identifier.citationAdeoti, Gbemisola and Evwierhoma, Mabel (2006). Introduction: African Politics and Letters after Soyinka's Nobel Prize. In Adeoti, Gbemisola and Evwierhoma, Mabel (eds.) After the Nobel Prize: Reflections on African Literature, Governance and Development. Lagos: Association of Nigerian Authors.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2657
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.pages.totalpages8en_US
dc.subjectAfrican literatureen_US
dc.subjectSoyinka, Woleen_US
dc.subjectSoyinka's Nobel Prizeen_US
dc.titleIntroduction: African Politics and Letters after Soyinka's Nobel Prizeen_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US
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