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Reading & Performing African Drama: How Wole Soyinka & Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o influenced my work
(Boydell and Brewer Limited, 2014-11-20) Kerr, David
A metaphysical space that connects the living, the dead, and the unborn—showing that African drama transcends entertainment to become a medium of spiritual and moral renewal. Through plays like Death and the King’s Horseman and The Road, Soyinka demonstrates that to truly “read” African drama is to interpret performance as an act of communal healing and resistance.
“No Danger No Delay”: Wole Soyinka and the Perils of Driving
(University of Minnesota Press, 2017-10-24) Green-Simms, Lindsey B.
Chapter 2 focuses on the tragedy of motorcar accidents through a close reading of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka’s 1965 post-independence play The Road about Nigerian lorry drivers living on the urban periphery. This chapter reads the road as a Bakhtinian chronotope – a space-time matrix – that includes various lived times of postcoloniality.