Nobel Prize-winning writer Wole Soyinka explores the history and future of Nigeria in a compelling jeremiad that is as intense as it is provocative, learned, and wide-ranging. Soyinka deftly explains the shifting dramatis personae of Nigerian history and politics to westerners unfamiliar with the players and the process, tracing the growth of Nigeria as a world economy through various political regimes.
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Nobel Prize-winning writer Wole Soyinka explores the history and future of Nigeria in a compelling jeremiad that is as intense as it is provocative, learned, and wide-ranging. Soyinka deftly explains the shifting dramatis personae of Nigerian history and politics to westerners unfamiliar with the players and the process, tracing the growth of Nigeria as a world economy through various political regimes.
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Add this copy of The Open Sore of a Continent: a Personal Narrative of to cart. $70.00, very good condition, Sold by Wonderland Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Oxford University Press.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Signed by Author First edition, first prnt. Signed by Soyinka on the front free endpage. Dustjacket with lower front flap corner price-clip; otherwise, an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover.
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Very Good. SIGNED/INSCRIBED! New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 1st edition. 8vo. vi, 170pp. Inscribed by author on front endpage. Very Good book. Very Good dust jacket. Inquire if you need further information.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed on fep. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. vi, 170 p. Index From Wikipedia: "Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Babatunde Soyinka (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to be honored. After study in Nigeria and the UK, he worked with the Royal Court Theatre in London. He went on to write plays that were produced in both countries, in theatres and on radio. He took an active role in Nigeria's political history and its struggle for independence from Great Britain. In 1965, he seized the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service studio and broadcast a demand for the cancellation of the Western Nigeria Regional Elections. In 1967 during the Nigerian Civil War, he was arrested by the federal government of General Yakubu Gowon and put in solitary confinement for two years. Much of his writing has been concerned with "the oppressive boot and the irrelevance of the colour of the foot that wears it". Soyinka escaped from Nigeria via the "NADECO Route" on a motorcycle."
