Further Reading
- Benson, Peter. "Review of Ìsarà: A Voyage around Essay, by Wole Soyinka." Literary Review 33, no. 3 (Spring 1990): 397-98. (Benson argues that Soyinka creates a skillful portrayal of African cultural identity in Ìsarà: A Voyage around Essay.)
- Gurnah, Abdulrazak. "The Fiction of Wole Soyinka." In Wole Soyinka: An Appraisal, edited by Adewale Maja-Pearce, pp. 61-80. Oxford: Heinemann, 1994. (Gurnah examines Soyinka's major thematic concerns in The Interpreters and Season of Anomy.)
- Msiska, Mpalive-Hangson. "Redemptive Tragedies." In Wole Soyinka, pp. 53-77. Plymouth, U.K.: Northcote House, 1998. (Msiska traces the recurring themes of corruption, the abuse of power, and redemption in Soyinka's body of work.)
- Ojaide, Tanure. "Two Worlds: Influences on the Poetry of Wole Soyinka." Black American Literature Forum 22, no. 4 (Winter 1988): 767-76. (Ojaide investigates the major influences behind Soyinka's verse in such volumes as Idanre and Other Poems, noting that analysis "reveals the admixture of indigenous and foreign qualities in [his] poems.")
- Soyinka, Wole, and Maya Jaggi. Guardian (2 November 2002): 12-13. (Soyinka discusses the political climate in Nigeria, his writing career, and his poetry collection Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known.)
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