author and internationally acclaimed man of letters
who died in March at age 82, caught the world’s
attention with his first novel, “Things Fall
Apart” (1958). In “There Was a Country,” he recalls coming of age as a
writer alongside a fragile new
nation — the Republic of Biafra — whose
succession from Nigeria in 1967 led to a bloody
civil war. OF AFRICA, by Wole Soyinka. (Yale
University, $16.) Soyinka, the Nigerian playwright
and Nobel laureate, offers a wide-ranging inquiry into Africa’s
cultures, religions, history and identity.
“Vast injustices remain, but the continent is lucky
to have fearless men and women of conscience,
like Soyinka,” Adam Hochschild wrote here: http://
www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/books/review/
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