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Jan 1, 1934 — —· 92 yrs

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Wole Soyinka

Also known as: Wole Soyinka, Soyinka Wole

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Africa's first Nobel Laureate in Literature. Fecund playwright, poet, novelist, and literary critic.

Ogun State, Nigeria
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I am obliged to concede that the overall tenor of my remarks could be easily construed as a requiem for what we know as the nation of Nigeria, so let me caution at the beginning that this is not my intention.

— from The open sore of a continent

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#2

Poems of Black Africa

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The interpreters

3.7 (3)

"Drawn together by their hopes, loves, dissatisfactions, and the daily lives and deaths around them, five young Nigerian intellectuals attempt to define their identity in a world where their cultural past and Western-influenced present are brought into conflict"--

#3

The Lion and the Jewel

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This is one of the best-known plays by Africa's major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. How the Lion hunts the Jewel is the theme of this ribald comedy.

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