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Volume 11 : 7 July 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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The New Idiom of Soyinka’s Plays
A Perspective

V. N. Manjula, Ph.D.

The Plays of Soyinka

Wole Soyinka occupies a prominent place among the African writers.

Poetry and dance create a renewed mythic awareness in the plays of Wole Soyinka, a great African (Nigeria) poet and playwright. Nigeria with its varied social and communal patterns has provided the rich background to his plays. The prevalent traditionalism becomes the focus. The plays unfold, one after another, the high drama of life. Traditional ideas mingle with new ideas. The traditional ideas are given a fresh lease of life, with the fusion of the old and the new. Soyinka has to his credit fifteen plays in which he has made extensive use of Yoruba mythology

Soyinka’s Background

Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka was born on July 13th 1934 in Ijebu Isara. His parents Ayo and Eniola came from adjoining kingdoms, Ijebu and Egba. His father was a school supervisor. He was brought up educated and worked until the age of twenty in what was then called the Western Region of Nigeria and in Lagos. He went to primary school in Abeokuta and to secondary school in Ibadan. After some months working in Lagos, he went to the University College, Ibadan, an institution affiliated to the University of London. He then did an English Honours degree at Leeds.

Soyinka has written articles about novels, poetry, films, plays and travel. His quotations are drawn from philosophers, political scientists, historians, as well as literary and dramatic sources. He is familiar with black traditions in The United States, South America and the Caribbean as well as with European and African culture .His interest in the theatre began at school, where he wrote sketches for “concerts” After he left school and before he went to the University College in Ibadan, he began writing radio comedies.

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