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Study Guide: From Zia, with Love by Wole Soyinka

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Study Guide: From Zia, with Love by Wole Soyinka is a detailed analysis of Wole Soyinka's play, From Zia, with Love.

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CHINUA ACHEBE

WOLE SOYINKA

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

J. M. Coetzee

NIGERIAN LITERATURE

Plot Summary and Setting of Kongi’s Harvest by Wole Soyinka

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Kongi’s Harvest by Wole Soyinka explores the fierce conflict between traditional African authority and modern, ruthless dictatorship.

Plot Summary and Setting of The Interpreters by Wole Soyinka

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The Interpreters centres on a close-knit group of educated Nigerian professionals attempting to navigate their newly independent nation.

Plot Summary and Setting of Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka

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Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka begins on the day Elesin Oba is expected to commit ritual suicide.

Plot Summary and Setting of The Beatification of Area Boy by Wole Soyinka

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The Beatification of Area Boy: A Lagosian Kaleidoscope is a play by Wole Soyinka that portrays a vivid cross-section of life in Lagos.

Plot Summary and Setting of A Play of Giants by Wole Soyinka

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A Play of Giants is a satire that examines the grotesque nature of dictatorial power and the international complicity that sustains it.

Plot Summary and Setting of A Scourge of Hyacinths by Wole Soyinka

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A Scourge of Hyacinths is a radio play that follows the tragic fate of three men who have been sentenced to death by an oppressive regime.

Plot Summary and Setting of The Road by Wole Soyinka

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The Road by Wole Soyinka opens at a motor-park overflowing with broken vehicle parts scavenged from road accidents.

Plot Summary and Setting of Kurunmi by Ola Rotimi

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Kurunmi: An Historical Tragedy by Ola Rotimi is set in the 19th-century Oyo Empire and centres on a constitutional crisis.

Plot Summary and Setting of Holding Talks by Ola Rotimi

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Holding Talks by Ola Rotimi is set in a poverty-stricken barber’s shop deliberately furnished to emphasise the owner’s destitution.

Plot Summary and Setting of Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again by Ola Rotimi

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Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again by Ola Rotimi is a political satire about opportunistic and poorly equipped leaders in contemporary Africa.

SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE

Richard Rive: South African Writer

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African Writers
Richard Moore Rive was one of South Africa’s most influential literary voices, born in a multicultural neighbourhood in Cape Town.

July’s People Analysis

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African Prose
July’s People by Nadine Gordimer is a fictitious account of a black revolt in South Africa that brings about the collapse of apartheid.

Burger’s Daughter Analysis

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African Prose
Burger’s Daughter is like most of Gordimer’s other fiction in that it is a ruthlessly lucid vision of contemporary manners.

The Conservationist Analysis

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African Prose
The Conservationist is a novel that falls under the genre of psychological realism set in Transvaal, South Africa in the 1960s.

Poem: “London Impressions” by Arthur Nortje

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African Poetry
“London Impressions” by Arthur Nortje is about the speaker’s experiences and observations in London, particularly in and around Trafalgar Square and Hyde Park.

KENYAN LITERATURE

EGYPTIAN LITERATURE

GHANAIAN LITERATURE

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