What is the source of magic

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In December 1962, Soyinka's essay "Towards a True Theatre" was published. He began teaching at the Department of English at Obafemi Awolowo University in Avila. He discussed current affairs with "negrophiles" and on several occasions openly condemned government censorship. In late 1963, his first feature film, Culture in Transition, was released. In April 1964, The Interpreters, "a complex but also vividly documentary novel," was published in London.

In December, together with scientists and theatre men, Soyinka founded the Nigerian Theatre Association. In 1964 he also resigned from his university post, in protest against the pro-government behaviour imposed by the authorities. A few months later, in 1965, he was arrested for the first time, accused of holding a radio station at gunpoint (as described in his 2006 autobiography You Must Set Forth at Dawn) and replacing the tape of a recorded speech by the prime minister of western Nigeria with a singapore telephone number different tape containing allegations of electoral malpractice. Soyinka was released after a few months of confinement, as a result of protests from the international writing community. This same year he wrote two more dramatic pieces: Before the Blackout and the comedy Kongi's Harvest. He also wrote The Detainee, a radio play for the BBC in London. His play The Road premiered in London at the Commonwealth Arts Festival, on 14 September 1965, at the Theatre Royal. At the end of the year, he was promoted to Head and Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language at the University of Lagos.

Soyinka's political speeches at the time criticised the cult of personality and government corruption in African dictatorships. In April 1966, his play Kongi's Harvest was produced at the World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Senegal. The Road was awarded the Grand Prix. In June 1965, he produced his play The Lion and the Jewel for the Hampstead Theatre Club in London.