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World Service,01 Nov 2007,22 mins

Return Journey – to Lagos and Prison

Wole Soyinka's Return to Biafra

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Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka recounts how in 1967 he tried to defuse the looming civil war in Nigeria. This week, his return to Lagos and imprisonment for more than two years.

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