"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];...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

seven friends made up of renowned Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Wole Soyinka, Ralph Opara, Pius Oleghe, Ikpehare Aig-Imoukhuede (left), Nathaniel...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

Years of Childhood is a 1981 memoir by Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka. It tells the story of Soyinka's boyhood before and during World War II in a Yoruba village...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Of Africa is a book written by Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist who is also the author of The Bacchae of Euripides (1969)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

love is a 1992 play written by Nigerian playwright, poet and author Wole Soyinka. The play was written based on the historical events that occurred in...

Haze on an African Spring is a book written in 2012 by Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka. The novel is set in Africa and their challenges; it also reflects the...

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...

The Man Died: Prison Notes is a 1972 non-fiction book by Wole Soyinka that explores Soyinka's experiences in prison during the Nigerian Civil War. In 1984...

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...

Nigerian playwright and critic Wole Soyinka. Published in 1973, it is one of only three novels published during Soyinka's highly productive literary career...