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السلالة القوية
مسرحية بعنوان " السلالة القوية " من تأليف وولي سوينكا
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Wole Soyinka
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Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, known as Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "wide cultural perspective and... poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence", the first sub-Saharan African to be honoured in that category.
Soyinka was born into a Yoruba family in Abeokuta. In 1954, he attended Government College in Ibadan, and subsequently University College Ibadan and the University of Leeds in England. After studying in Nigeria and the UK, he worked with the Royal Court Theatre in London. He went on to write plays that were produced in both countries, in theatres and on radio. He took an active role in Nigeria's political history and its campaign for independence from British colonial rule. In 1965, he seized the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service studio and broadcast a demand for the cancellation of the Western Nigeria Regional Elections. In 1967, during the Nigerian Civil War, he was arrested by the federal government of General Yakubu Gowon and put in solitary confinement for two years, for volunteering to be a non-government mediating actor.
Soyinka has been a strong critic of successive Nigerian (and African at large) governments, especially the country's many military dictators, as well as other political tyrannies, including the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe. Much of his writing has been concerned with "the oppressive boot and the irrelevance of the colour of the foot that wears it". During the regime of General Sani Abacha (1993�98), Soyinka escaped from Nigeria on a motorcycle via the "NADECO Route". Abacha later proclaimed a death sentence against him "in absentia". With civilian rule restored to Nigeria in 1999, Soyinka returned to his nation.
In Nigeria, Soyinka was a Professor of Comparative literature (1975 to 1999) at the Obafemi Awolowo University, then called the University of Ifẹ̀. With civilian rule restored to Nigeria in 1999, he was made professor emeritus. While in the United States, he first taught at Cornell University as Goldwin Smith professor for African Studies and Theatre Arts from 1988 to 1991 and then at Emory University, where in 1996 he was appointed Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts. Soyinka has been a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and has served as scholar-in-residence at New York University's Institute of African American Affairs and at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. He has also taught at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard and Yale, and was also a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Duke University in 2008.
In December 2017, Soyinka was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize in the "Special Prize" category, awarded to someone who has "contributed to the realization of cultural events that promote understanding and the exchange of knowledge between peoples".
Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, known as Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "wide cultural perspective and... poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence", the first sub-Saharan African to be honoured in that category.
Soyinka was born into a Yoruba family in Abeokuta. In 1954, he attended Government College in Ibadan, and subsequently University College Ibadan and the University of Leeds in England. After studying in Nigeria and the UK, he worked with the Royal Court Theatre in London. He went on to write plays that were produced in both countries, in theatres and on radio. He took an active role in Nigeria's political history and its campaign for independence from British colonial rule. In 1965, he seized the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service studio and broadcast a demand for the cancellation of the Western Nigeria Regional Elections. In 1967, during the Nigerian Civil War, he was arrested by the federal government of General Yakubu Gowon and put in solitary confinement for two years, for volunteering to be a non-government mediating actor.
Soyinka has been a strong critic of successive Nigerian (and African at large) governments, especially the country's many military dictators, as well as other political tyrannies, including the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe. Much of his writing has been concerned with "the oppressive boot and the irrelevance of the colour of the foot that wears it". During the regime of General Sani Abacha (1993�98), Soyinka escaped from Nigeria on a motorcycle via the "NADECO Route". Abacha later proclaimed a death sentence against him "in absentia". With civilian rule restored to Nigeria in 1999, Soyinka returned to his nation.
In Nigeria, Soyinka was a Professor of Comparative literature (1975 to 1999) at the Obafemi Awolowo University, then called the University of Ifẹ̀. With civilian rule restored to Nigeria in 1999, he was made professor emeritus. While in the United States, he first taught at Cornell University as Goldwin Smith professor for African Studies and Theatre Arts from 1988 to 1991 and then at Emory University, where in 1996 he was appointed Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts. Soyinka has been a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and has served as scholar-in-residence at New York University's Institute of African American Affairs and at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. He has also taught at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard and Yale, and was also a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Duke University in 2008.
In December 2017, Soyinka was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize in the "Special Prize" category, awarded to someone who has "contributed to the realization of cultural events that promote understanding and the exchange of knowledge between peoples".
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August 10, 2018
I love African books, and our writers. Nothing makes me happier than laying my hands on such books, which is not so easy these days…and quite expensive. Pa Wole Soyinka for me is a god…a man who has done it all; been doing it all for many decades. It’s a shame that I was not old enough to read most of the books the great man wrote decades ago when one understands they were easily available and affordable; and one can hardly find them again. The one I read many times was The Strong Breed which I could not understand much (as usual with Soyinka) but which I still loved. His fantastically rich descriptions and unbelievable, often facetious diction dictates that whatever he writes is a treasure…what is the expression, treasure trove?
May 18, 2018
A short but symbolically heavy play. I think one needs a good grounding in the Yoruba culture and traditions to grasp its symbolism, and as such, a lot passed me by.
July 14, 2019
The Strong Breed is a book that is rich in the display of Yoruba culture in Nigeria and African setting. The story is about a man who sacrificed his life for the people in his village. His love life and dedication by a woman who loved him. The question is are the people in his village grateful for his ultimate sacrifice he made for communal benefit of saving his village.
Another goodread written by Wole Soyinka
Another goodread written by Wole Soyinka
August 15, 2019
African literature different very different
June 10, 2023
يتميز سونيكا بقدرة على إصارة اهتمام القارئ بطريقة سرده للأحداث وأيضا قدرته على وضع عدة ذروات في العمل الواحد، بجانب أنه يناقش قضايا وأفكار مثيرة نتيجة عدم تعودنا الكافي على الثقافة الافريقية وجوانبها المختلفة، والمسرحية الحالية متوسطة المستوى نتيجة غياب عنصر بناء الاحداث بطريقة محكمة ما أثر بالسلب عبى جودة العمل.
March 23, 2025
I feel as though this play is average. I enjoyed the characters but found the plot not as engaging. I think it would be interesting to see this play performed, and maybe I would understand it a little more.
November 12, 2020
The interweaving of immortal deities, with very human narratives and behaviours just hits the spot for me personally.
March 4, 2021
Breathtaking
December 10, 2023
Very nice
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June 20, 2023
البته من برگردان فارسی� از سعید طلاجوی، انتشارات نیلا رو خوندم که موجود نبود توی گودریدز.
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