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Title: | The Early Writings of Wole Soyinka |
Author: | Lindfors, Bernth |
Year: | 1975 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Studies (UCLA) |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | Spring |
Pages: | 64-86 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | literature Literature, Mass Media and the Press |
About person: | Wole Soyinka (1934-) |
Abstract: | Though Wole Soyinka's life and works have been subjected to careful academic scrutiny, no one has given much attention to his early formative period as a writer. Little is known about his literary activities prior to 1960, when he returned to Nigeria after completing a B.A. in English at the University of Leeds and working for three years in London as a bartender, bouncer, substitute high school English teacher, and script-reader at the Royal Court Theatre. Even less is known about the writing he did before leaving for England in 1954, and not much has been said about how he spent his year in Ibadan as a Rockefeller Research Fellow in 1960-61. This article attempts to fill in a few of these large lacunae in Soyinka's literary career by examining some of his unknown writings. Notes. |