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In 1972 his novel Season of Anony and his collected works were published by Oxford University Press. His powerful autobiographical work The Man Died, a collection of prison notes, was also published that year. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Leeds in 1973. In the same year the National Theatre in London commissioned and premiered Euripides' play The Bacchae, and his plays Camwood on the Leaves and Jero's Metamorphoses were also published for the first time. From 1973 to 1975 Soyinka spent time in scientific studies. He spent a year as a visiting fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge University in 1973–74 and wrote Death and the King's Horseman, which had its first reading at Churchill College (attended by Dapo Ladimeji and Skip Gates), and gave a series of lectures at various European universities.

In 1974 his Collected Plays, Volume II was published by Oxford University Press. In 1975 Soyinka was promoted to the post of editor of Transition, a journal based in Accra, the capital of Ghana, where he relocated singaporean phone number for some time. He used his columns in Transition to criticise "negrophiles" (e.g. his article "Neo-Tarzanism: The Poetics of Pseudo-Transition") and military regimes. He protested against Idi Amin's military junta in Uganda. After the political renewal in Nigeria and the subversion of the Gowon military regime in 1975, Soyinka returned to his homeland and resumed his post at the Cathedral of Comparative Literature of the University of Ghana.

In 1976, he published his collection of poetry Ogun Abibiman, as well as a collection of essays entitled Myth, Literature and the African World. In these, Soyinka explores the genesis of mysticism in African theatre and, using examples from European and African literature, compares and contrasts the cultures. He gave a series of lectures at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana in Legon. In October, the French version of The Dance of the Woods was staged in Dakar, while his play Death and the King's Horseman premiered in 1978.