Soyinka wrote:

**The reasoning** This is about matching Nigerian authors to their works. **Wole Soyinka**, Nigeria's Nobel Prize winner (1986), is a playwright and poet famous for exploring Yoruba culture and colonial themes. *Death and the King's Horseman* (1975) is one of his most celebrated plays, based on a real 1946 incident in Oyo about a king's horseman who must follow his king in death—but colonial interference disrupts tradition. Soyinka uses this to examine the collision between African values and Western intervention. **Why the wrong options tempt you** - **A (Things Fall Apart)** – Chinua Achebe wrote this classic about Okonkwo and colonialism's impact on Igbo society - **C (Half of a Yellow Sun)** – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's powerful novel about the Biafran War - **D (Anthills of the Savannah)** – Another Achebe masterpiece about post-independence African politics All are major Nigerian literary works, so if you're unsure, they all *feel* plausible. But only one is Soyinka's. **Quick takeaway** **Remember: Soyinka = plays + Yoruba themes.** Associate "Death and the King's Horseman" with his Nobel Prize-winning exploration of tradition versus colonialism.