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Acknowledgments  \nAbout the Author  \nAlso By Wole Soyinka Copyright Page  \nTo all the fallen in our common cause,  \nand to the surviving, scars and all, clamorous or hidden. To all my stoically resigned children.  \nAnd to my wife, Adefolake, who, during the season of a deadly dictatorship, demoted me from the designation of Visiting Professor to that of Visiting Spouse, but was still left with only an Invisible Spouse as I was swallowed by my study even during visiting hours.  \nPraise for You Must Set Forth at Dawn  \n“[A] sprawling, delightful memoir... As a chronicle of modern Africa and its troubles from the continent’s foremost literary giant, You Must Set Forth at Dawn triumphs.” —The Washington Post  \n“You Must Set Forth at Dawn is more than just the journey of a remarkable and controversial man through the backdrop of the controversial country he loves so much. It is not merely an important book. This is a book that must exist.” —San Francisco Chronicle  \n“The fine detail of [Soyinka ’s] oppositional activity, involving clandestine border crossings, strange bedfellows and secret diplomatic missions, is presented here for the first time. Adding it up, one wants to set him in the right company. Victor Hugo, Yeats, Byron and Alessandro Manzoni all come to mind.” —The New York Times Book Review  \n“Wole Soyinka is a titan.... Playwright and poet, novelist and pamphleteer, editor and autobiographer, cultural impresario and unofficial diplomat, democratic conspirator and ferocious, unappeasable warrior for justice, he has earned his Nobel Prize many times over.” —The New York Review ofBooks  \n“Captivating . . . You Must Set Forth at Dawn is much more than a memoir. . . . Soyinka ’s most powerful weapon has always been the eloquence of his voice as a writer.... [Soyinka ’s art] will outlive both him and the regimes he opposed.” —The Nation  \n“Profoundly rewarding . . . the synthesis of a wealth of ancient myths and traditions with the best of humanism and modernity, addressing the drama that is not only the author ’s life but Africa ’s contemporary reality.” —WQ: The Wilson Quarterly  \n“Humane, sensible and impeccably written; a fitting summation of a life interestingly lived.”  \n—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)  \n“Engrossing... His lyrical evocations of African landscapes, the urban nightmare of Lagos, the horrors of British cuisine and the longing a dusty fugitive feels for a cold beer will entertain and educate readers.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)  \n“A must for anyone concerned with human rights and the global web of oil, poverty, and corruption.”  \n—Booklist","cbCaiez6HnuOT6tq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiez6HnuOT6tq","pdf",2988406,402,"English","# Title Page\n## Dedication\n## Praise\n# Chronology\n## IBA—For Those Who Went Before\n## PART I-Ogun and I\n# PART II-Ogun, Less Benign\n## Uncivil Wars: The Third Force and the Midwest Incursion\n## A Moment of Truth—and the Lies of History\n# PART III-Interlude to a Friendship\n## Interlude to a Friendship\n# PART IV-Dining with the Devil—and an Avatar\n## Dinner with an Avatar\n# PART V-All the World . . .\n## Night We Improvise\n# PART VI-Bernard Shaw Was Right!\n## How the News Came to Me\n# PART VII-Nation and Exile\n## The Road to Exile\n# PART VIII-Homecoming\n## Homecoming","[{\"question\":\"What is the memoir’s overall structure?\",\"answer\":\"The memoir is organized into numbered parts (PART I through PART VIII) with thematic chapter headings, moving from early intimations to conflict, interludes, exile, and homecoming.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the memoir relate to themes of conflict and politics?\",\"answer\":\"Section titles reference wars, truth and historical lies, and nation and exile, indicating a life intertwined with political struggle and contested events.\"},{\"question\":\"What do the included praise excerpts emphasize?\",\"answer\":\"The praise highlights the book as a far-reaching memoir and chronicle of modern Africa, stressing Soyinka’s eloquence, oppositional activity, and impact on readers concerned with justice and human rights.\"}]","You Must Set Forth at Dawn - A Memoir - Part 1 - Ogun and I | PDF",1789989473,619]