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Product Description: The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Soyinka now follows his classic of autobiography, 'Ake: The Years of Childhood', with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, beleaguered homeland...read more
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9780375503658 | Random House Inc, April 11, 2006, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A memoir by Africa's first Nobel laureate for literature continues the story that began in his childhood autobiography 'Akâe' as Soyinka describes the adventures and mishaps of his adulthood, including his frequent exile from his homeland, his celebratedliterary work, and his advocacy for political and human rights.
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9780413776303 | Methuen Pub Ltd, March 2, 2016, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Soyinka now follows his classic of autobiography, 'Ake: The Years of Childhood', with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, beleaguered homeland.
9780375755149 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, March 13, 2007), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A compelling memoir by Africa's first Nobel laureate for literature continues the story that began in his childhood autobiography Ake as Soyinka describes the adventures and mishaps of his adulthood, including his frequent exile from his homeland, his celebrated literary work, and his advocacy for political and human rights.
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9780300140460 | Yale Univ Pr, November 1, 2012, cover price $24.00
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9780300198331 | Yale Univ Pr, November 12, 2013, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed the promise of independence and lived through postcolonial failure.
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9780955507984 | Ayebia Clarke Pub Ltd, October 30, 2008, cover price $39.00
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9780394528076 | Random House Inc, September 1, 1982, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka.
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9780679725404 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, October 1, 1989), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The Nigerian playwrite, poet, and novelist recounts his first eleven years growing up under the influence of his parents, traditional Yoruba customs, and Christian missionaries
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9781439514306 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, July 10, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka.
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9781592213467 | Africa World Pr, August 15, 2005, cover price $24.95
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9780812974249 | Random House Inc, January 25, 2005, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The Nobel Prize-winning author examines the dominant role of fear in today's global political environment, assessing the changing face and implications of fear, the conflict between freedom and power, the complex motives behind horrifying acts of violence, and the meaning of human dignity.
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9780393325836, titled "The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite" | 2 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 7, 2004), cover price $15.95
9780393007893 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1975, cover price $11.30
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9789782030320 | Bookcraft, May 1, 2004, cover price $14.95
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9788881584390 | Charta, March 1, 2004, cover price $34.95
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9789780294427 | Spectrum Books Ltd, December 29, 2003, cover price $20.95
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9780416187601 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 1, 2003, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Madmen and Specialists is one of Soyinka's most excoriating portrayals of abusers and abused in the new Nigeria ushered in by Biafra.
9780809012268 | Hill & Wang Pub, December 1, 1971, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: An African playwright reveals his thoughts on man's betrayal of his vocation for power in this drama
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9780413292407 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, September 1, 2003, cover price $18.95
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9780413772558 | Methuen Pub Ltd, December 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: First collection of poems for ten years by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and dramatist.
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9780393977615 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 2002), cover price $22.05
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9780393322996 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 2002, cover price $13.95
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9780809037933, titled "Death and the King's Horseman" | Hill & Wang Pub, April 1, 1987, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This Norton Critical Edition of Death and the King's Horseman is the only student edition available in the United States.
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9780413333605, titled "Death and the Kings Horseman" | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 1, 2003, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Elesin Oba, the King's Horseman, has a single destiny.
9780413695505, titled "Death and the Kings Horseman" | Student edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 1, 2003), cover price $13.95
9780374522100, titled "Death and the King's Horseman" | Reissue edition (Hill & Wang Pub, May 1, 1991), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: A Nobel Prize-winning playwright's classic tale of tragic decisions in a traditional African culture.
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9780606342322, titled "Death And the King's Horseman" | Demco Media, November 1, 2002, cover price $21.35 | About this edition: Title: Death and the King's Horseman Binding: Paperback Author: WoleSoyinka Publisher: W.
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9780606147804, titled "Death and the King's Horseman" | Turtleback Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
Hardcover:
9781578063376 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, May 1, 2001, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka is the most prominent writer from the African continent and one of the greatest living playwrights in the English language.
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9781578063383 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, May 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka is the most prominent writer from the African continent and one of the greatest living playwrights in the English language.
Traces Nigeria's recent history and politics, chronicling its decline from post-colonial success to its current military dictatorship, and speculates on its future as a nation.
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9780735104198 | Replica Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $27.45 | About this edition: Traces Nigeria's recent history and politics, chronicling its decline from post-colonial success to its current military dictatorship, and speculates on its future as a nation.
9780195105575 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 12, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Traces Nigeria's recent history and politics, chronicling its decline from post-colonial success to its current military dictatorship, and speculates on its future as a nation
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9780195119213 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, August 7, 1997), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: On November 10, 1995, the Nigerian military government under General Sani Abacha executed dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight other activists, and the international community reacted with outrage.
Product Description: From the first African Nobel Laureate, this is the first in a series of Olufosoye Annual Lectures on Religions, delivered at the University of Ibadan in 1991. Soyinka, in his characteristically stimulating way, discusses the religions of Nigeria in their national context, and other religions from around the world...read more
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9789780291488 | Reprint edition (Spectrum Books Ltd, June 1, 2000), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: From the first African Nobel Laureate, this is the first in a series of Olufosoye Annual Lectures on Religions, delivered at the University of Ibadan in 1991.
9789782461186 | Spectrum Books Ltd, April 1, 1991, cover price $19.95
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9780195122053 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 3, 1998, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Discusses the prospects for reconciliation between oppressors and victims in Africa today
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9780195134285 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 17, 2000, cover price $24.95
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9780195215366 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $53.00 | also contains Southern Queen: New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century
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9789782030184 | Bookcraft, April 1, 1999, cover price $11.95
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9780413732606 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, February 4, 1999, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Wole Soyinka is Africa's versatile writer.
A collection of the work of the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian writer includes plays, poetry, excerpts from his autobiographies, essays on art, politics, and culture, and his Nobel address on apartheid in South Africa.
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9780679439905 | Pantheon Books, January 1, 1999, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A collection of the work of the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian writer includes plays, poetry, excerpts from his autobiographies, essays on art, politics, and culture, and his Nobel address on apartheid in South Africa.
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9780195119701 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Prize laureate and Nigerian exile, has been described by The New York Times as "one of the most compelling literary voices in black Africa.
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