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Wole Soyinka's long-awaited third novel isn't his best work
The great writer and playwright hasn't published a novel since 1973 — but fans who've been waiting may be disappointed by this dense, florid tale of murder and corruption in an imaginary Nigeria.
It's been almost 50 years since Wole Soyinka published a novel — 48 years, to be exact. Soyinka — a playwright, novelist, and political activist, among other things, has ensnared the literary world with his genius, going all the way back to 1986 when he became the first Black African writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Soyinka has only written two previous novels, The Interpreters (1965) and (1973) — now, to great fanfare and high expectations, he has released his third, .
