Biography
Wole Soyinka 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 held in solitary confinement for two years. In 1986, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Poetry Collections
Idanre and other poems (Hill and Wang, New York, NY,1967); A Big Airplane Crashed into The Earth (original title Poems from Prison) (Rex Collings Ltd., Paddington Street, London, 1969); A Shuttle in the Crypt (Hill and Wang, New York, NY, 1971); Ogun Abibiman ( Ravan Press (Pty) Ltd, South Africa); Mandela's Earth and other poems (Random House, New York, NY, 1988); Early Poems (Oxford University Press, Oxford, EN, 1997)
