Beatification Of Area Boy

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

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Set in Nigeria, amid the scenes of everyday racketeering and general disquiet, the police try to clear the area of undersirables, as a traditional wedding between two illustrious and ambitious families is about to take place.'Witty, wise and uplifting, this is a beautiful play whose message steals up on you and lingers on.' Financial Times.'The play is a protest against the barbarity of greed and oppression; but it is also a celebration of people's irrepressible and indomitable spirit' Sunday Times.

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Utgivningsdatum1995-09-11
Mått124 x 202 x 10 mm
Vikt142 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieModern Plays
Antal sidor96
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780413686800

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Wole Soyinka is a playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist born in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1934.Soyinka won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature with his debut novel, The Interpreters, becoming the first-ever African laureate and has since won many other prizes such as the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award in 2009 and the Anisfield-Wolf book Award, Lifetime Achievement in 2012.A prominent political activist, Soyinka was imprisoned for nearly two years during the Nigerian Civil War and was later exiled. He continues to fight against government corruption and oppression worldwide.