Indare and Other Poems

Wole Soyinka

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968 - Poetry - 88 pages

A selection of poetry discussing political tensions and Africa's cultural traditions also includes an adaptation of the creation myth of Ogun, the Yoruba God of Iron

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Indare and Other Poems
• Author: Wole Soyinka
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968
• ISBN: 0809013525, 9780809013524
• Length: 88 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / African; Poetry / General