The Lion and the Jewel is a play by Nigerian poet and playwright Wole Soyinka, set in the small Nigerian village of Ilujinle in the 1960s. It tells the story of a love triangle among Sidi, a beautiful and vain young woman, Lakunle, a progressive and condescending schoolteacher, and Baroka, the corrupt but open-minded authority figure in the village. It deals with themes of progress versus tradition, women’s rights, and different performance traditions.
The Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka (born 1935) was one of the few African writers to denounce the slogan of Negritude as a tool of autocracy. He also was the first black African to be awarded the No...
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Until he became, in October 1986, the first black African writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Wole Soyinka was probably best known within his own country, Nigeria, as a political acti...
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Biography EssayUntil he became, in October 1986, the first black African writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Wole Soyinka was probably best known within his own country, Nigeria, as a...
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Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka