"Wole" Soyinka CFR (/ˈwoʊleɪ sɔɪˈ(j)ɪŋkə, - ʃɔɪˈ-/ WOH-lay s(h)oy-(Y)ING-kə; Yoruba: Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé "Wọlé" Ṣóyíinká, pronounced [wɔlé ʃójĩnká];...
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Ayodele Soyinka, an Anglican minister. The second of their seven children was Wole Soyinka, writer and 1986 winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. Wole Soyinka...
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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...
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Death and the King's Horseman (category Plays by Wole Soyinka)
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...
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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...
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seven friends made up of renowned Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Wole Soyinka, Ralph Opara, Pius Oleghe, Ikpehare Aig-Imoukhuede (left), Nathaniel...
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The 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...
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Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth (category Novels by Wole Soyinka)
on Earth is a 2021 novel written by Nigerian playwright and novelist Wole Soyinka. It was released on 28 September 2021 by Bookcraft Africa. The novel...
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founded the union along with Grace Eniola Soyinka (her husband's niece and the mother of Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka),: 157 and the AWU gradually grew to...
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The Interpreters (novel) (category Novels by Wole Soyinka)
The Interpreters is a novel by Wole Soyinka, first published in London by André Deutsch in 1965 and later republished as part of the influential Heinemann...
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The Road (play) (category Plays by Wole Soyinka)
The Road is a 1965 play by Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian playwright, poet, and director. The play explores the activities at a roadside workshop, known as Aksident...
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The Lion and the Jewel (category Plays by Wole Soyinka)
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...
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Kongi's Harvest (category Plays by Wole Soyinka)
Kongi's Harvest is a 1965 play written by Wole Soyinka. It premiered in Dakar, Senegal, at the first Negro Arts Festival in April 1966. It was later adapted...
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numerous accolades, including the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to Wole Soyinka in 1986, and the Booker Prize, awarded to Ben Okri in 1991 for The Famished...
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or as Conrad would say, 'rudimentary souls'." Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has described the work as "the first novel in English which spoke from...
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King Baabu (category Plays by Wole Soyinka)
a play by Wole Soyinka amongst his others plays including The Lion and the Jewel,A Dance of the Forests, and The Strong Breed. Wole Soyinka was the first...
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Literature 1986 Wole Soyinka". The Nobel Prize. Retrieved 10 December 2013. Theresia de Vroom, "The Many Dimensions of Wole Soyinka" Archived 2013-06-05...
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A Dance of the Forests (category Plays by Wole Soyinka)
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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Kongi's Harvest (film) (category Works by Wole Soyinka)
The film was adapted from a screenplay by Wole Soyinka adapted from his 1965 play of the same name. Soyinka, a Nigerian playwright, poet, and the first...
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Season of Anomy (category Novels by Wole Soyinka)
Nigerian playwright and critic Wole Soyinka. Published in 1973, it is one of only three novels published during Soyinka's highly productive literary career...
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English by Wole Soyinka in 1968 under the title Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga. In his translator's note for the text, Soyinka writes that...
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The Beatification of the Area Boy (category Plays by Wole Soyinka)
The Beatification of the Area Boy, a play by Wole Soyinka, was first published in Great Britain in 1995 and later in Nigeria in 1999. The play explores...
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The Strong Breed (category Plays by Wole Soyinka)
The Strong Breed is one of the best-known plays by Wole Soyinka. It is a tragedy that ends with an individual sacrifice for the sake of a community's benefit...
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1969 "All Nobel Laureates". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2019-10-11. "Wole Soyinka Biography". Nobelprize.org. Grimes, William (1983-10-08). "Toni Morrison...
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Alapata Apata (category Plays by Wole Soyinka)
Alapata Apata, a satirical play by Wole Soyinka mocking Nigerian politics through the story of Alaba, a retired butcher. As Alaba adjusts to his newfound...
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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...
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National Arts Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos, in honor of Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka. Construction of The National Theatre was started by the military regime...
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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...
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