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BREAKING: Wole Soyinka Releases New Novel In France
BREAKING: Wole Soyinka Releases New Novel In France
Nigerian author Wole Soyinka’s third novel, “Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth”, has been published in French.
In an interview with RFI, the Nobel laureate shared the inspiration behind the book, which unfolds in an imaginary rendition of Nigeria.
This novel is the product of extensive life experience. Soyinka described its origins as rooted in “anger, frustration, and also puzzlement” when speaking to RFI’s Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint.
The anger stems from the escalating levels of corruption and widespread dysfunction plaguing the country.
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“The title comes from external sources: I read one of these Gallup polls conducted around the world, one about which are the happiest people in the world,” Soyinka explains.
“I was astonished to find that Nigeria was among the top six, maybe even top three or four. So I started asking myself how we came to earn such an unlikely title.
“That’s the question I tried to answer in that work.”
The novel follows the adventures of Papa Davina, a wannabe guru who comes back from the United States and finds an unlikely following as the creator of his own religion.
“They’re fascinating characters, these Papa Davinas of the world – whether they come from Christianity or Islam,” Soyinka says.
“They are really theatrical, even if it’s as very bad theatre. The question is how people are so seduced with what, for me, is just an act.”
Facing such developments are two friends, a doctor and an engineer, Dr Menka and his oldest college friend, bon vivant and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne, trying to stay sane in a country on the verge of social explosion.
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