当索因卡于一九八六年成为第一位获得诺贝尔文学奖的非洲作家时,他投身尼日利亚民主事业斗争的三十年光阴弹指即逝,他是剧作家,诗人,小说家,也是民主斗士。从他这部书名充满诗意的回忆录的角度来看,也许“民主斗士”这个身份更容易概括这几十年他所经历的一切。 When Soyinkhin became the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, Thirty years after he joined the struggle for democracy in Nigeria, he was a playwright, poet and novelist, and also Democracy champion. From the poetic memoir of his book, perhaps the identity of “Democrats” may make it easier to outline what he has experienced in these decades.