A Dance of the Forests by Wole Soyinka This blog post aims to explore and analyze aspects of "A Dance of the Forests" by the renowned Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka. It is part of a thinking Activity and assigned by Megha Trivedi, a faculty member in the Department of English at Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University (MKBU) in Bhavnagar, India. Wole Soyinka Wole Soyinka was a Nigerian playwright and political activist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. He sometimes wrote of modern West Africa in a satirical style, but his serious intent and his belief in the evils inherent in the exercise of power were usually evident in his work as well. A member of the Yoruba people, Soyinka attended Government College and University College in Ibadan before graduating in 1958 with a degree in English from the University of Leeds in England. Upon his return to Nigeria, he founded an acting company and wrote his first important play, A Dance of the Forests (produc...