The Man Died: Prison Notes by Wole Soyinka

The Man Died: Prison Notes
by Wole Soyinka

New York: Harper & Row
Stated first US edition, 1972

SIGNED by Soyinka on half-title page. Ex-library with all the usual markings.

Condition: Hardcover; dust jacket in library mylar with the usual stickers on the spine, pocket on the ffep, etc--see photos. Otherwise clean and unmarked, and binding remains firm.

wiki: "Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka Hon. FRSL (born 13 July 1934), known as Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, for "in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence", the first sub-Saharan African to be honoured in that category. / ... Soyinka was often at odds with the military. In 1984, a Nigerian court banned his 1972 book The Man Died: Prison Notes."