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Iba-for those who went before -- Ogun and I -- Early intimations -- Reunion with Ogun -- First skirmishes -- Ogun, less benign -- Uncivil wars: the third force and the midwest incursion -- A moment of truth-and the lies of history -- The conquest of civilian pride -- Interlude to a friendship -- Dining with the devil-and an avatar -- Olori-Kunkun and Ori Olokun -- The "Evil genius" -- A pen coalition-- Dinner with an Avatar -- All the world -- Tonight we improvise -- From ghetto to Garrison -- Bernard Shaw was right! -- How the news came to me -- Thorns in the crown -- To Stockholm and back -- Three lost years -- Nation and exile -- The road to exile -- By the water of Babylon -- Diplomatic recruit -- Requiem for an ecowarrior -- Arms and the man -- A final mission -- Homecoming -- An interim welcome-official -- Where the earth says welcome!

Die Autobiographie der Kindheit von Wole Soyinka führt den Leser in die Yoruba-Stadt Aké, wo der Literatur-Nobelpreisträger als Sohn eines Schulleiters aufwuchs. Die humorvollen Schilderungen aus Kindesperspektive lassen ein lebendiges Bild afrikanischer Familien- und Sozialbeziehungen in den späten 1930er und 1940er Jahren entstehen und liefern damit ein Stück Sozialgeschichte. (DÜI-Sbd)

Going through a protracted period of transition since the end of the Cold War, the world order in the making is neither what was nor what it is yet to become. It is in "the middle of the future."To get our bearings in this uncertain transition, we explore the two grand post‐Cold War narratives—"The End of History" as posited by Francis Fukuyama and "The Clash of Civilizations" posited by the late Samuel Huntington. Mikhail Gorbachev looks back at his policies that brought the old order to collapse. The British philosopher John Gray critiques the supposed "universality" of liberalism and, with Homi Bhabha, sees a world of hybrid identities and localized cultures. The Singaporean theorist Kishore Mahbubani peels away the "veneer" of Western dominance. Amartya Sen, the economist and Nobel laureate, assesses whether democratic India or autocratic China is better at building "human capacity" in their societies.