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In 1977, Opera WnNysiSi, his adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera, was staged in Ibadan. In 1979 he directed and acted in Jon Blair and Norman Fenton's drama The Biko Inquest, a play based on the life of Steve Biko, a South African student and human rights activist who was beaten to death by apartheid police forces. In 1981 Soyinka published his autobiographical work Aké: The Childhood Years, which won an Anisfield-Wolf Award in 1983.

Soyinka founded another theatre group called the Guerrilla Unit. Its aim was to work with local communities to analyse their problems and express some of their grievances in dramatic sketches. In 1983, his play Requiem site:www.latestdatabase.com for a Futurologist was first performed at Defe University. In July, one of his musical projects, the Unlimited Liability Company, released a long-playing record entitled I Love My Country, on which several prominent Nigerian musicians performed songs composed by Soyinka. In 1984, he directed the film Blues for a Prodigal; his new play A Play of Giants was produced the same year.

During the years 1975–84, Soyinka was most politically active. At Delfe University, his administrative duties included road safety. He criticized corruption in the government of the democratically elected President Shehu Shagari. When he was replaced by army general Muhammadu Buhari, Soyinka was often at odds with the military. In 1984, a Nigerian court banned his 1972 book The Man Died: Prison Notes. In 1985, his work Requiem for a Futurologist was published in London by André Deutsch.