The purely literary achievements are always there for all to see, read and admire, and as time goes by, to treasure and to emulate. In the case of Achebe and Soyinka, the various prizes they have won attest to their achievements. Literary criticism has concentrated on Achebe’s conscious writing on his culture for the consumption of foreigners as against writing for people within his own understanding… Soyinka, on his side, has been found by many critics as being deliberately difficult and hard to comprehend.

If we were to play a game of the world that Achebe creates side by side with the world that Soyinka creates we would be seeing two different worlds…

Author: Kole Omotoso

Language: English