Writers and the Books They Grew up Reading
In our past First Draft interviews, we asked authors such as Helon Habila and Sarah Ladipo Manyika about the books they grew up reading. Here’s what they told us. Read More...
Month: August 2024
August Reading 2024 Half-Year Reading from The Republic’s Contributors
Our 2024 August Reading list features the most important books so far this year based on recommendations from The Republic’s editors and contributors. Read More...
On Wole Soyinka
Our latest issue, The Enduring Voice of Wole Soyinka, celebrates the 90th birthday of Wole Soyinka and considers his influence on literature, African thought, plus more. Read More...
The Enduring Voice of Wole Soyinka
As he turns 90, Wole Soyinka discusses the current state of the world, the power of African literature, the social climate in Tinubu’s Nigeria, and the world ahead. Read More...
What Wole Soyinka Means to Me
A native daughter reflects on the life and legacy of a literary giant. Read More...
Soyinka in the Gazan Crypt
Wole Soyinka’s work gives to Palestinians something the life-world of Palestinian letters give to us: an abiding love and solidarity for the captive. Read More...
The World After Wole Soyinka’s Climate of Fear
First presented as Reith Lectures exactly 20 years ago, what does it mean to revisit Wole Soyinka’s Climate of Fear in today’s chaotic world? Read More...
A Walk Through Wole Soyinka’s ‘Àbíkú’
An anthropological attempt at unravelling Wole Soyinka’s rewardingly obscure poem, ‘Àbíkú’. Read More...
The Dramatic Procedures of Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka’s legacy as a dramatist is a testament to what a proper cultural education, clear ambition, and strict commitment to craft can produce. Read More...
An African Feminist Reading of Wole Soyinka
Feminist scholars have often debated the portrayal of women in Wole Soyinka’s works, who typically navigate patriarchal societies. In Soyinka’s plays, Death and the King’s Horseman and The Lion and the Jewel, however, we find women who operate within the confines of tradition and strategically redefine their roles through acts of defiance. Read More...
