“The man dies in all who keep quiet in the face of tyranny,” Nigerian poet/playwright/novelist/essayist Wole Soyinka wrote in his The Man Died.

        A Nobel Laureate for literature, a survivor of two years of solitary confinement for his political convictions, Mr. Soyinka is the most acclaimed of Africa's writers. He will appear at 8 p.m. today at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati as part of a two-day visit that takes him to the University of Cincinnati and Miami University.

        Mr. Soyinka will discuss his art and his politics in tonight's program, which is sponsored by ETC and the Theatre of the Mind play-reading series, with the support of the Ohio Arts Council.

        ETC artistic director D. Lynn Meyers says she is thrilled with the collaboration that is bringing a world figure in arts and politics to the Over-the-Rhine theater.

        “One of the reasons theater exists is to express political convictions,” she says. “To have a man of such conviction and strength and of such literary gifts on our stage is a privilege.”

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