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Title: Heavy propaganda with the occasional fact gotten straight.
Review: Soyinka has a point to make, and his passion for doing so will not facts nor logic stand in his way. As it turns out, what does prevent him is his own tortured prose. Soyinka ostentatiously displays his vocabulary, but the "ten dollar words" are designed to impress us with his intellect, not to communicate clearly. On paper, his thoughts wander about as if suffering from attention deficit disorder. But his meanderings are oh-so Politically Correct, which will explain the praise this book has received.
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