Our 2024 August Reading list features the most important books so far this year based on recommendations from The Republic’s editors and contributors.
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.
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.
A native daughter reflects on the life and legacy of a literary giant.
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.
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?
An anthropological attempt at unravelling Wole Soyinka’s rewardingly obscure poem, ‘Àbíkú’.
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.
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
Since the landmark Soyinka-Bọ́lẹ̀kájà debate of the 1980s, African poetry has sparked intense discussions about authenticity and the influence of Western literary traditions and forms on its poets.