Jero Plays

Jero Plays

by Wole Soyinka
Jero Plays

Jero Plays

by Wole Soyinka

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Overview

'Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest' - New York Times Book Review



These hilarious and vicious two plays examine the corruption of Nigerian society through a study of the rise and fall of one of its self-made charismatic preachers.'Wole Soyinka's Nobel Prize for Literature is a triumphant affirmation of the universality of this novelist, poet, film-maker and political activist.' - Guardian


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780413292407
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 09/07/2009
Series: Modern Plays
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.21(d)

About the Author


Wole Soyinka--playwright, novelist, poet and polemical essayist--was born in Nigeria in 1934. Educated there and at Leeds University, he worked in the British theatre before returning to West Africa in 1960. In 1986 he became the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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