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Wole Soyinka on how he came to write Death and the King's Horseman by Andrew Gumbel

As Wole Soyinka's blistering play about colonialism opens at the National, the Nobel laureate talks to Andrew Gumbel about suicide bombers, Churchill - and dancingWole Soyinka is explaining what moved him, in the mid-1970s, to write his play Death and the King's Horseman. And that means, inevitably, telling a story. At the time, he was a fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, he says, one of the Nobel laureate's ma…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PM on March 16, 2017

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