/ What it is all about?"
This author wrote that "I shall shoot you clean and fair / With meat and bread, a gourd of wine / A bunch of breasts from either arm, and that / Lone question - do you… know… / What it is all about?" in a poem depicting a wartime interaction between a "Civilian and Soldier." The speaker of a poem by this author pleads "Madam… wouldn't you rather / See for yourself?" after being asked several permutations of the all-caps question "ARE YOU DARK? OR VERY LIGHT?" by a potential landlady. This author wrote a volume of protest poems titled A Big (*) Airplane Crashed Into the Earth during a nearly two-year stint of imprisonment during which he scribbled a memoir on toilet paper and was unable to attend the Accra production of his play in which a "Dance of the Lost Traveller" is performed for a photographer who assembles a picture book from images of a village in which Lakunle and Baroka vie for the hand of Sidi. For 10 points, name this Nigerian author of "Telephone Conversation" and plays such as The Lion and the Jewel.
This author wrote that "I shall shoot you clean and fair / With meat and bread, a gourd of wine /
Wole Soyinka [or Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka]