Akinwande Oluwole ‘Wole’ Soyinka is a playwright, poet, essayist and professor who in 1986 became the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. His works, including ‘Death and the King’s Horseman’, and his decades of political and civic advocacy, have made him one of Africa’s most influential public intellectuals.
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Wole Soyinka
Playwright, Poet & Essayist
Location: Abeokuta
Nobel laureate and the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1986).
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