Chancellor's Reading Club

Wole Soyinka: Resources

On Soyinka and his Work

• Wole Soyinka Study Guide, created by Paul Brians, Washington State University. Includes notes on "The Lion and the Jewel."
• Wole Soyinka, from an appearance at Stanford University.
• Wole Soyinka, Nobelprize.org.
• Wole Soyinka, from the Authors' Calendar.
• "Writing, Theater Arts, and Political Activism" - Conversation with Wole Soyinka (video and text version) from Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
• Wole Soyinka: The Climate of Fear - Reith Lecture 2004 from BBC Radio 4
• Wole Soyinka, Wikipedia.
• Wole Soyinka on Yoruba Religion, a conversation with Ulli Beier, Isokan Yoruba Magazine 3, no. 3 (Summer 1997).

On Nigeria and Yoruba Culture

• A Country Study: Nigeria. A summary of Nigerian history, culture, politics, and economy, created by the Library of Congress Federal Research Division.
• Yoruba Mythology, at teachersparadise.com.
• The Yoruba Page, a site about Yoruba history and culture.
• Egbe Omo Yoruba, the National Association of Yoruba Descendents in North America.  Click on Yoruba? for information about Yoruba culture.
• Cutting to the Essence, Shaping for the Fire, an essay on Yoruba art by Michael D. Conner, Ph.D.
• The World of the Yoruba, by Misty Bastian, Franklin and Marshall College.
• Monotheism in Traditional Yoruba Religion, by Kofi Johnson and Raphael Oyinade, Thinking About Religion 3 (2004).
• The Nigerian Village Square: A site about Nigerian culture, politics, and more.
• The Yoruba Today, by J.S. Eades. Originally published as a book by Cambridge University Press in 1980.

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