Essays in Honour of Wole Soyinka at 80, edited by two award-winning African writers, is a celebration of the literary life of Wole Soyinka at an important stage in his life. The volume provides the most extensive anthology ever produced on Africa s first Nobel Laureate in Literature and features 30 essays with a foreword by the former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku. Diverse aspects of his life are reflected in six themes that also documents the literary and cultural histories of West Africa from the 1950s to the present day.