Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s Nobel laureate, is a playwright, essayist and poet. His most recent works are The Beatification of Area Boy (1995) and The Open Sore of a Continent (1996), and his poetic collections include Idanre (1967) and Mandela’s Earth (1988). He is Woodruff Professor of the Arts at Emory University Atlanta and a fellow of the W.E. DuBois Institute, Harvard.

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