You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir

The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic 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. More than a major figure in the world of literature, Wole Soyinka is a courageous voice for human rights, democracy, and freedom. YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN is an intimate chronicle of his thrilling public life, a meditation on justice and tyranny, and a mesmerising testament to a ravaged yet hopeful land.