Wole Soyinka

The book reconsiders Soyinka’s contribution to the debate about African identity, exploring the various elements constituting his distinctive aesthetic and apprehension of African culture. It concentrates on his plays, his fiction and poetry and investigates his views on the relationship
between myth, history, and modernity, primarily highlighting his conception of the nature of African post-colonial society and power. Also, the book looks at Soyinka’s exploration of the metaphysical aspects of evil, particularly as manifested in political violence, and, in addition, it examines his
belief in the irrepressibility of the human desire to transcend any form of political, spiritual and social oppression. Finally, it argues that Soyinka’s major contribution to our understanding of contemporary African life and art lies in his attempts to move beyond the idea of identity as an
opposition between Self and Other to a conception of identity in which such concepts are either themselves questioned or transferr