Oxford University Press
Winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, this Nigerian poet, playwright, and novelist writes of the rich cultural traditions as well as the hopes and frustrations of black Africa. This two-volume collection of his plays includesA Dance of the Forests, The Swamp Dwellers, The StrongBreed, The Road, and The Bacchae of Euripides in the first volume, andThe Lion and the Jewel, Kongi's Harvest, The Trials of Brother Jero,Jero's Metamorphosis, and Madmen and Specialists in the second volume.