"African conscience:" Soyinka and his angry poems against tyranny.

In 1986, Soyinka won the Nobel Prize in Literature and became the first Africanblack writer who won this honor. His award changed the pattern of worldliterature and brought African literature into the eyes of world literatureresearchers for the first time.

Hell's tangled chimneys, black throbbing thunder, gathering of rough cloud-likewool, my head, man!