We must set forth at dawn .

The book you are referring to is the monumental memoir by Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, titled "You Must Set Forth at Dawn". The motif of the "dawn traveler" and the open road is central to the first pages of this book. It functions both as a literal description of Soyinka's early years traversing Nigeria by car and as a powerful symbol for his life as an activist.