Last week, I asked a guy, one of these people insulting Kongi, to give me the titles of Kongi’s works he knows. The first he mentioned is The man is dead. I said come again. Then he corrected himself and said The Man dies. I told him to go on. He said Telephone Discussion, Trials of Brother Jero, Dead and the horseman. That was where he ended.

I find out that these social media rats insulting Wole Soyinka don’t even know anything about him. They heard of Pirate Confranternity but don’t know a thing about it. All their parents told them was that Wole Soyinka is a cultist. Don’t let me go into the tribal arguments that followed because I might injure the sensibilities of my friends who do not subscribe to these silly arguments on social media.

I will however publish all the works of Wole Soyinka so they could update themselves from the crass ignorance they revel in. Here we go:

PLAYS:
* Keffi’s Birthday Treat (1954)
* The Invention (1957)
* The Swamp Dwellers (1958)
* A Quality of Violence (1959)
* The Lion and the Jewel (1959)
* The Trials of Brother Jero (1960)
* A Dance of the Forests (1960)
* My Father’s Burden (1960)
* The Strong Breed (1964)
* Before the Blackout (1964)
* Kongi’s Harvest (1964)
* The Road (1965)
* Madmen and Specialists (1970)
* The Bacchae of Euripides (1973)
* Camwood on the Leaves (1973)
* Jero’s Metamorphosis (1973)
* Death and the King’s Horseman (1975)
* Opera Wonyosi (1977)
* Requiem for a Futurologist (1983)
* A Play of Giants (1984)
* Childe Internationale (1987)
* From Zia with Love (1992)
* The Detainee (radio play)
* A Scourge of Hyacinths (radio play)
* The Beatification of Area Boy (1996)
* Document of Identity (radio play, 1999)
* King Baabu (2001)
* Etiki Revu Wetin
* Alapata Apata (2011)
* Thus Spake Orunmila (in Sixty-Six Books (2011)
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NOVELS
* The Interpreters (1965)
* Season of Anomy (1973)
* Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth (Bookcraft, Nigeria; Bloomsbury, UK; Pantheon, US, 2021)
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FILMS
* Kongi’s Harvest
* Culture in Transition
* Blues for a Prodigal
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SHORT STORIES
* A Tale of Two (1958)
* Egbe’s Sworn Enemy (1960)
* Madame Etienne’s Establishment (1960)
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MEMOIRS
* The Man Died: Prison Notes (1972)
* Aké: The Years of Childhood (1981)
* Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: a memoir 1945–1965 (1989)
* Ìsarà: A Voyage around Essay (1989)
* You Must Set Forth at Dawn (2006)
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POETRY COLLECTIONS
* Telephone Conversation (1963) (appeared in Modern Poetry in Africa)
* Idanre and other poems (1967)
* A Big Airplane Crashed into The Earth (original title Poems from Prison) (1969)
* A Shuttle in the Crypt (1971)
* Ogun Abibiman (1976)
* Mandela’s Earth and other poems (1988)
* Early Poems (1997)
* Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known (2002)
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ESSAYS
* Towards a True Theater (1962)
* Culture in Transition (1963)
* Neo-Tarzanism: The Poetics of Pseudo-Transition
* A Voice That Would Not Be Silenced
* Art, Dialogue, and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture (1988)
* From Drama and the African World View (1976)
* Myth, Literature, and the African World (1976)
* The Blackman and the Veil (1990)
* The Credo of Being and Nothingness (1991)
* The Burden of Memory – The Muse of Forgiveness (1999)
* A Climate of Fear (the BBC Reith Lectures 2004, audio and transcripts)
* New Imperialism (2009)
* Of Africa (2012)
* Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions (2019)

TRANSLATIONS
* The Forest of a Thousand Demons: A Hunter’s Saga (1968; a translation of D. O. Fagunwa’s Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmalẹ̀)
* In the Forest of Olodumare (2010; a translation of D. O. Fagunwa’s Igbo Olodumare)

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