Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde "Wole" Soyinka CFR (/ˈwoʊleɪ sɔɪˈ(j)ɪŋkə, - ʃɔɪˈ-/ WOH-lay s(h)oy-(Y)ING-kə; Yoruba: Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé "Wọlé" Ṣóyíinká...

Olaokun Soyinka (born 11 November 1958) is a Nigerian medical doctor and a former Ogun State commissioner for Health. His father, Wole Soyinka, is the...

University, Ile-Ife. Femi Soyinka was born into the Soyinka's family in 1937. He was the younger brother of writer, Wole Soyinka. He obtained his medical...

Grace Eniola Soyinka (née Jenkins-Harrison; 1908–1983) was a Nigerian shopkeeper, activist, and member of the aristocratic Ransome-Kuti family. She co-founded...

Soyinka is a Nigerian surname. It is a male name and of Yoruba origin, which means "I am surrounded or protected by sorcerers". Soyinka (Shoyinka) is...

Kayode Soyinka (born Olukayode Adedeji Soyinka; 15 December 1957) is a Nigerian journalist, publisher, and author. He is the founder, publisher and editor-in-chief...

Adejuwon Soyinka is a Nigerian journalist. Soyinka studied journalism at Nigerian Institute of Journalism, obtaining formal certifications in 1999. He...

is nominally University-based. The group was founded by Professor Wole Soyinka and six students in 1952 to support human rights and social justice in...

1986 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka (born 1934) "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones...

Death and the King's Horseman is a play by Wole Soyinka based on a real incident that took place in Nigeria during the colonial era: the horseman of a...

The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka is a 1972 non-fiction book by Wole Soyinka that explores Soyinka's experiences in prison during the Nigerian...

Jenkins-Harrison (1908–1983) (Grace Eniola Soyinka) m. Samuel Ayodele Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (1934) (Wole Soyinka), writer, among others Olufela...

Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa is a pan-African writing prize awarded biennially to the best literary work produced by an African. It was...

The Lion and the Jewel is a play by Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka that was first performed in 1959 in Ibadan. In 1966, it was staged in London, England...

Susan Soyinka (née Fowler; born 27 October 1945) is a British social historian, researcher and author. A former educational psychologist, she became a...

Climate of Fear is a literary work by Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist who is also the author of The Bacchae of Euripides...

parcel bomb in his home at Ikeja, Lagos, while in his study with Kayode Soyinka, on Sunday 19 October 1986. The assassination occurred two days after he...

Metamorphosis is a continuation of The Trials of Brother Jero, written by Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian playwright, poet and author. The play pictures a prophet at...

Nigeria's first and only winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Wole Soyinka, to record a musical album that satirized the corruption of the Nigerian...

A Dance of the Forests is one of the most recognized of Wole Soyinka's plays. It was "presented at the Nigerian Independence celebrations in 1960, it...

Conversation may refer to: Telephone call Wole_Soyinka#Poetry_collections, a poetical work by Wole Soyinka a 45-second track on We're Only in It for the...

writer/playwright and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka lived and worked between 1967 and 1972. It was from there that Soyinka was arrested in 1967 after visiting...

and teachers had been killed between 1993 and 2019. In 1952, author Wole Soyinka (later a Nobel Prize winner) and a group of six friends formed the Pyrate...

regarded as a socio-political and an ecocentric poet. He won the 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa with his collection Songs of Myself: A Quartet...

Depression and Suicide at 14th Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting and went ahead to win the 15th Wole Soyinka award for Investigative reporting...

as well as postcolonial literature, including African literature, Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe being notable subjects of his writing. Mpalive Msiska...

indifference, Soyinka reports that immediately after Achebe's death he received a great many letters urging him to nominate Achebe posthumously. Soyinka denied...

A Play of Giants is a play by Wole Soyinka, Africa's first Nobel Prize winner in 1986. "A Play of Giants" is a satire that takes aim at dictators in Africa...

Literature 1986 Wole Soyinka". The Nobel Prize. Retrieved 10 December 2013. Theresia de Vroom, "The Many Dimensions of Wole Soyinka" Archived 2013-06-05...

as Conrad would say, 'rudimentary souls'." Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has described the work as "the first novel in English which spoke from...