Wole Soyinka’s “The Swamp Dwellers” unfolds nearly seven decades ago, in a place most Americans have never visited: a village in the swamps of the Nigerian Delta. Mr. Soyinka, a native of that country ...
The Swamp Dwellers, a rarely produced drama written in 1958 on the eve of Nigerian independence when Wole Soyinka was about age twenty-four, is in one act and runs approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes.
Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka finds stunning universal resonance in a quietly tragic tale steeped in Yoruba myth and lore and set in a rustic hut in the Niger Delta. An ageing couple living on ...