A selective list of online literary criticism for the Nigerian playwright, novelist, and poet Wole Soyinka, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in peer and editor reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Web Pages
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Adekoya, Olusegun. "The future of humanity as projected in Soyinka's A Dance of the Forests." Studies in the Humanities, 01-JUN-02
Adeoti, Gbemisola Aderemi "Literary Studies in Contemporary Nigerian Universities: The Challenges of Nationalism and Globalisation." Paper for 2004 UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Paris, France, 3/12/04
Adu-Gyamfi, Yaw. "Orality in writing: its cultural and political significance in Wole Soyinka's Ogun Abibiman." Research in African Literatures, 22-SEP-02.
Garuba, Harry. "The island writes back: discourse/power and marginality in Wole Soyinka's The Swamp Dwellers, Derek Walcott's The Sea at Dauphin, and Athol Fugard's The Island." Research in African Literatures, 22-DEC-01.
Granqvist, Raoul. "Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize Winner: Sweden Acknowledges Africa." Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 22, No. 3, Wole Soyinka Issue, Part 1 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 467-474
Jacobs, Alan. "Wole Soyinka's Outrage." Books & Culture, 01-NOV-01.
Johae, Antony. "Wole Soyinka's 'Hamlet': the rotten state of Denmark revisited." Research in African Literatures, 22-DEC-07. From
Johae, Antony. "Wole Soyinka's 'Gulliver': Swift transposed." Comparative Literature, Winter 2001
McLuckie, Craig. "The structural coherence of Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman." College Literature, 22-MAR-04.
McLuckie, Craig. On "Requiem for a Futurologist." The Literary Encyclopedia. 2 February 2004
McLuckie, Craig. On "Poems from Prison." The Literary Encyclopedia. 16 October 2003
Nouryeh, Andrea J. "Soyinka's Euripides: postcolonial resistance or avant-garde Adaptation?" [The Bacchae of Euripides by Wole Solyinka]. Research in African Literatures, 22-DEC-01.
Wright, Derek. Reviews of Wole Soyinka by James Gibbs and of The Writings of Wole Soyinka, 3rd edn. by Wole Soyinka; Eldred Durosimi Jones. First page of article only. The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Dec., 1988), pp. 709-712
Jaffrey, Zia. "Wole Soyinka: 'this regime just does not believe in innocence.'" The Progressive, August, 1997
McLuckie, Craig. Introduction to Wole Soyinka. The Literary Encyclopedia. 16 September 2003
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1986. From the Nobel Prize web site
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