Incomplete Works of Prof. Wole Soyinka

 

INCOMPLETE WORKS OF PROF. WOLE SOYINKA

 

The best way to celebrate Prof. Wole Soyinka’s 87^th Birthday today is to take any of his under listed book(s) and read.

Ibadan book club, an initiative of the Society of Young Nigerian Writers (SYNW) brings to you some of the collections of Prof. Wole Soyinka’s works. The collections have been classified into Plays (30), Novels (3), Short Stories (3), Memoirs (5), Poetry Collections (8), Essays (14), Films (3) and translations (2).  

You can also share with us any of his book(s) you have read. For your comments, observations and enquiries about Ibadan Book Club, kindly reach out to the Coordinator of Ibadan Book Club @ Ayobami Odunyemi – 08164148985 or email @ ibadanbookclub@gmail.com. To check our past activities, kindly log on to: www.ibadanbookclubonline.blogspot.com.

Below are the incomplete works of Prof. Wole Soyinka.

 

PLAYS

• Keffi's Birthday Treat (1954)
• The Invention (1957)
• The Swamp Dwellers (1958)
• A Quality of Violence (1959)
• The Lion and the Jewel (1959)
• The Trials of Brother Jero
• A Dance of the Forests (1960)
• My Father's Burden (1960)
• The Strong Breed (1964)
• Before the Blackout (1964)
• Kongi's Harvest (1964)
• The Road (1965)
• Madmen and Specialists (1970)
• The Bacchae of Euripides (1973)
• Camwood on the Leaves (1973)
• Jero's Metamorphosis (1973)
• Death and the King's Horseman (1975)
• Opera Wonyosi (1977)
• Requiem for a Futurologist (1983)
• A Play of Giants (1984)
• Childe Internationale (1987)
• From Zia with Love (1992)
• The Detainee (radio play)
• A Scourge of Hyacinths (radio play)
• The Beatification of Area Boy (1996)
• Document of Identity (radio play, 1999)
• King Baabu (2001)
• Etiki Revu Wetin
• Alapata Apata (2011)
• "Thus Spake Orunmila" (short piece; in Sixty-Six Books (2011)

NOVELS

• The Interpreters (1964)
• Season of Anomy (1972)
• Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth (forthcoming, Bookcraft, 2021)

SHORT STORIES

• A Tale of Two (1958)
• Egbe's Sworn Enemy (1960)
• Madame Etienne's Establishment (1960)

MEMOIRS

• The Man Died: Prison Notes (1972)
• Aké: The Years of Childhood (1981)
• Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: a memoir 1945–1965 (1989)
• Isara: A Voyage around Essay (1990)
• You Must Set Forth at Dawn (2006)

POETRY COLLECTIONS

• Telephone Conversation (1963) (appeared in Modern Poetry in Africa)
• Idanre and other poems (1967)
• A Big Airplane Crashed into The Earth (original title Poems from Prison) (1969)
• A Shuttle in the Crypt (1971)
• Ogun Abibiman (1976)
• Mandela's Earth and other poems (1988)
• Early Poems (1997)
• Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known (2002)

ESSAYS

• Towards a True Theater (1962)
• Culture in Transition (1963)
• Neo-Tarzanism: The Poetics of Pseudo-Transition
• A Voice That Would Not Be Silenced
• Art, Dialogue, and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture (1988)
• From Drama and the African World View (1976)
• Myth, Literature, and the African World (1976)
• The Blackman and the Veil (1990)
• The Credo of Being and Nothingness (1991)
• The Burden of Memory – The Muse of Forgiveness (1999)
• A Climate of Fear (the BBC Reith Lectures 2004, audio and transcripts)
• New Imperialism (2009)
• Of Africa (2012)
• Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions (2019)

FILMS

• Kongi's Harvest
• Culture in Transition
• Blues for a Prodigal

TRANSLATIONS

• The Forest of a Thousand Demons: A Hunter’s Saga (1968; a translation of D. O. Fagunwa's Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmalẹ̀)
• In the Forest of Olodumare (2010; a translation of D. O. Fagunwa's Igbo Olodumare)