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Wole Soyinka

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5 months ago

Yvonne Brewster obituary

Theatre director and founder of Talawa, the company that champions writers and actors of African and Caribbean heritage

By the time she founded her influential and still thriving Talawa theatre compan…

Soyinka, 91, who recently compared US president to Idi Amin, says ‘I have no visa – I am banned’

The Trump administration has revoked the visa for Wole Soyinka, the acclaimed Nigerian Nobel prize-winn…

The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.

10 months ago

Along with other icons of African writing, Ngũgĩ taught generations how to decolonise literature, language and the mind

• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87

Growing up in post…

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