出版社：Glendora International im African e-Journals Project
摘要：IN his celebrated 1974 interview with the journalist, John Agetua after the publi cation of The Man Died, Wole Soyinka gave poignant expression to his perception of the social utility of literature. 'For me', he declared 'a book is a hand grenade which you detonate under a stagnant way of looking at the world'. Two and a half decades after that encounter, Africa's first Nobel literature prize winner has certainly not changed his view. His latest literary offering, characteristically provocative and captivating, is a veritable timebomb which is bound to explode indolent, selfserving assumptions as regards the parameters of the national question, the character of the State and the foundations of nationhood in contemporary Nigeria.
