A Dance of the Forests

1963

A Shuttle in the Crypt

1972

Aké

The Years of Childhood

1981

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

2020

Climate of Fear

The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World

2005

Collected Plays

A Dance of the Forests; the Swamp Dwellers; the Strong Breed; the Road; the Bacchae of Euripides: Volume 1

1973

Death and the King's Horseman

1975

From Zia, with love

1992

Idanre and Other Poems

1967

Isara

A Voyage around "Essay"

1989

King Baabu

2002

Kongi's Harvest

1965

Madmen and Specialists

1971

Mandela's Earth

1988

Myth, Literature and the African World

1976

Of Africa

2012

Reimagining Pan-Africanism. Distinguished Mwalimu Nyerere Lecture Series 2009-2013

2015

Samarkand & Other Markets I Have Known

2003

Season of Anomy

1973

Selected Poems

2002

Six Plays

1984

Telephone Conversation

1963

The Bacchae of Euripides

A Communion Rite

1973

The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness

1998

The Interpreters

1965

The Jero plays

1973

The Lion and the Jewel

1962

The Man Died

Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka

1972

The Open Sore of a Continent

A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis

1996

The Road

1965

The Strong Breed

1963

The Swamp Dwellers

2007

The Trials of Brother Jero & The Strong Breed

1998

The beatification of Area Boy

A Lagosian kaleidoscope

1995

You Must Set Forth at Dawn

2006