Lectures tagged "Nigeria"

The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World
Ted Conover
March 4, 2010
00:44:54
National Book Critics Circle Award-winning writer Ted Conover discusses the history, impact, and future of the global road system and his new book, The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today.
Audio-only
Black Writers: Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
April 21, 2003
01:19:19
Wole Soyinka reads from his book Samarkand & Other Markets I Have Known. In 1986, Soyinka became the first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. In plays, novels, and poems, he has chronicled the political turmoil of his native Nigeria.