Checkout 7 Amazing Things You Need To Know About Prof . Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka was born Akinwande Oluwole “Wole”
Babatunde Soyinka on July 13, 1934, in Abeokuta,
Nigeria.
Soyinka is an author, playwright and poet, who has
published hundreds of works, including drama, novels,
essays and poetry, and colleges all over the world are
seeking him out as a visiting professor.
1.He has been married thrice and divorced twice.
2. He was imprisoned for 22 months as civil war
ensued between the federal government and the
Biafrans.
3. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in
Literature, the first African to be honored.
4. He taught at the universities of Oxford, Harvard and
Yale.
5. From 1975 to 1999, he was a Professor of
Comparative Literature at the Obafemi Awolowo
University, then called the University of Ife.
6. Soyinka has been a strong critic of successive
Nigerian governments, especially the country’s many
military dictators, as well as other political tyrannies,
including the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe.
7. He took an active role in Nigeria’s political history
and its struggle for independence from Great Britain.
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