Re/Views & Critique
A Linguistic Stylistic Analysis of Wole Soyinka's Procession 1- Hanging Day'
written by
Abdulsalam A Walliyullah
A review of (or essay about)
1.0. INTRODUCTION
This chapter contains the background information about the author of the poem Procession 1- Hanging Day. It describes some of the events that take place in the poem. It also the chapter discusses the aim and objectives of the study and the linguistic frameworks that have been adopted for this study.
1.1. BACKGROUND OF THE AUTHOR
Wole Soyinka, a playwright, novelist, poet and polemical, was born on July 13th, 1934, in Abeokuta, a village on the banks of river Ogun in the Western area of Nigeria. his mother was a Christian convert, so devoted that he nicknamed her “Wild Christian* and his father was the scholarly headmaster of a Christian primary school whom he also nicknamed “essay* – a play on his occupation and his initials, S.A.
Soyinka was educated through the secondary level in Ibadan and later attended University College, Ibadan and the University of Leeds in England where he graduated with honours. He worked for a brief period at the royal court theatre in London before returning to Nigeria in 1960. At tthat time, his only published works were poems such as The Immigrant and My Nextdoor Neighbourwhich appeared on themaga1ine called Black Orpheus (1957).
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