Volume 53, Number 11 · June 22, 2006
The Writer and the Tyrant
By Neal Ascherson
You Must Set Forth at Dawn
by Wole Soyinka
Random House, 499 pp., $26.95
Wole Soyinka is a titan, not only in Nigeria and not only in Africa. Playwright and poet, novelist and pamphleteer, editor and autobiographer, cultural impresario and unofficial diplomat, democratic conspirator and ferocious, unappeasable warrior for justice, he has earned his Nobel Prize many times over. The world's good and great beg him to drop in for lunch. The people in the streets and villages of his own country call out to him as 'Prof' or 'Kongi,' and feel for a moment happy to be Nigerian.
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