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Wole Soyinka, 2015 Nigerian playwright and political activist Wole Soyinka won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author
Also known as: Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka
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Wole Soyinka (born July 13, 1934, Abeokuta, Nigeria) is a Nigerian playwright and political activist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. He was the first Black African to be awarded the prize and was cited by the Nobel Committee for his “vivid, often harrowing” works “marked by an evocative, poetically intensified diction.” Soyinka sometimes writes of modern West Africa in a satirical style, but his serious intent and his belief in the...

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