This author once quipped 
This author once quipped that the "zebra does not brag of its zebra-tude" in criticizing the concept of Negritude, supporters of which attacked this author's A Dance of the Forests for its use of what they called "European techniques." The disorienting effect of colonial intrusion into Yoruban life is chronicled in this author's works, including Kongi's Harvest and Death and the King's Horseman. In the US he's best known for a work in which Baroka, the first title figure, woos Sidi, the second, from the modern but pathetically ineffective Lakunle. FTP name this winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature, the Nigerian author of The Lion and the Jewel.
This author once quipped that the "zebra does not brag of its zebra-tude" in criticizing the concept of Negritude, supporters of which attacked this author's A Dance of the Forests for its use of what they called "European techniques.
Wole {Soyinka}