Culture : Nigerian literary giant Wole Soyinka releases new novel in France

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Nigerian author Wole Soyinka's third novel, "Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth", has been released in French. The Nobel laureate tells RFI about his inspiration behind the book, which takes place in an imaginary version of Nigeria.

Since the mid-1960s, Soyinka's voice has brought the most caustic criticism against dictatorships and bad governance in his country, which can be read as universal fables as well. He has spent more than five decades using his writing to reflect, discuss and criticise the society around him – in his native Nigeria, but also elsewhere in Africa and the rest of the world.