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The Trial of Wole Soyinka
Larson, Charles R. | September 15, 1969 issue

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Wole Soyinka the brilliant Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist-has been in prison for twenty-two months and for the last eighteen in solitary confinement in a small cell in the prison at Kaduna in Northern Nigeria. Ostensibly, the charges against him are that he aided the Biafran rebels at the outbreak of the current Nigerian-Biafran civil war. Soyinka himself has referred to his trip to Eastern Nigeria as a "peace mission." However vague the charges against Soyinka may be, the Nigerian Government has seen fit to detain the gifted writer for nearly two years with- out trial.

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SOYINKA, Wole; DRAMATISTS; THEATER; CIVIL war; NIGERIA -- Politics & government; NIGERIA, Eastern; NIGERIA
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