Write a detailed note on Soyinka’s political activism

Soyinka does not want to present a uniformly enthusiastic and optimistic play, signalling that by becoming independent, all of Nigeria’s political ills were ended.

Ngugi, writing exclusively in Gikuyu, does this; Soyinka living in the U.S. in self-imposed exile and writing in English does not. Although in some of his writings and interviews Soyinka is as outspoken as Franz Fanon about the atrocities of imperialism, it is also true that Soyinka wants to open the eyes of his fellow Nigerians to the atrocities they are committing both politically and socially. To him, colonialism is not a catch-all for all the ills of his country. Also, it is obvious that Soyinka does not want to lose his western reading public by not writing in English. His aim seems to be to spread knowledge of Yoruba culture and civilisation outside Africa rather than to address the Nigerian peasant or worker in Yoruba.

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