Essays in Honour of Wole Soyinka at 80

"This anthology is published as part of memorials and events, both in Africa and internationally, to mark the eightieth birthday of Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka ... we wanted to move away from previous anthologies which focused largely on his literary work. We also wanted to avoid a collection of purely academic or scholarly articles even as we included some ... so as to produce a kind of snap portrait of the complete artist that Soyinka is."