The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis

New York, NY: Oxford University Press, USA, 1996. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed on fep.. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. vi, 170 p. Index From Wikipedia: "Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Babatunde Soyinka (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to be honored. After study 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 struggle for independence from Great Britain. 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. Much of his writing has been concerned with "the oppressive boot and the irrelevance of the colour of the foot that wears it". Soyinka escaped from Nigeria via the "NADECO Route" on a motorcycle."