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From Zia With Love and A Scourge of Hyacinths

Wole Soyinka author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:10th Aug '92

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Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986

Confusion and fear permeate society where the brutality and injustice of military rule is parodied by life inside prison. "From Zia With Love" is based on events in Nigeria in the early 1980s. "A Scourge of Hyacinths", written for radio, presents variations on the same theme."Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably one of her finest." (New York Times Book Review) When the Military decrees that a crime carrying a prison sentence now retroactively warrants summary execution, confusion and fear permeate a society where the brutality and injustice of military rule is parodied by life inside prison. Based on events in Nigeria in the early 1980s Wole Soyinka's stage play From Zia with Love and radio play A Scourge of Hyacinths, were produced in the early 90s when the writer was exiled by Sani Abacha's notorious and unjust military regime.

ISBN: 9780413672407

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 188g

96 pages