Wole Soyinka is a powerful Nigerian poet, novelist and memoirist. "The Man Died" is an account of his experience as a political prisoner in Nigeria. A very powerful book.

wole soyinka is one of the most widely read and appreciated african novelists , whose claim to distinction is as legitimate as that of achebe . The Man Died is a breath taking illustration of a political prisoners life and the autobiographical insinuations is startling. A novelist who honours commitment and finds art a convenient tool to express the ire not only of the suffering society but also of a nation that crumbles under the colonial weight . Soyinka is a witness to the bizarre political drama enacted by the imperial monarchs and the fight iniated by the writer echoed sentiments that one finds in John Steinbeck and Doss Passos.Reading the novelist is not simply a pleasureable exercise but also to be through the trauma , trials and triabulations and the pain of being held hostage by the alien forces .