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Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka (born July 13, 1934) is a Nigerian writer. Some consider him Africa's most distinguished playwright. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, the first person of African descent to be so honored.
Soyinka was born into a poor Yoruba family in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1934. He received a primary school education in Abeokuta and secondary school at Government College, Ibadan. He studied at the University College, Ibadan (1952-1954) and the University of Leeds (1954-1957) from which he received an honours degree in English Literature. He worked as a play reader at the Royal Court Theatre in London before returning to Nigeria to study African drama. He taught in the Universities of Lagos, Ibadan, and Ife (becoming Professor of Comparative Literature there in 1975).
Soyinka has played an active role in Nigeria's political history. In 1967, during the Nigerian Civil War he was arrested by the Federal Government and put in solitary confinement for his attempts at brokering a peace between the warring parties. While in prison he wrote poetry which was published in a collection titled Poems from Prison. He was released 22 months later after international attention was drawn to his imprisonment. His experiences in prison are recounted in his book Prison Notes.
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Nigeria Laureate: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/07/27/wole.soyinka/index.html
shrewd_ (Francis Adediran) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:36:12 -0000
Nigeria Laureate: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/07/27/wole.soyinka/index.html
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This Past Must Address Its Present - Transcript of Wole Soyinka's 1986 Nobel lecture.
Wole Soyinka - Includes a biography and related links.
Meta Description: [ Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive. ]
Wole Soyinka - Biography of Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka, plus links to all of his works currently in print.
Meta Description: [ Biography of Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka, plus links to all of his works currently in print. ]
Wole Soyinka - Biography of the Nobel Literature Laureate 1986. With a lecture and list of writings.
Wole Soyinka Study Guide - Biography of Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka, plus synopses of several of his plays.
Wole Soyinka: Stanford Presidential Lectures - Biography of Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka.
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