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Historical Figures in Nigeria : Spotlight on Wole Soyinka

Jun 28, 2023 · 7m 27s
Historical Figures in Nigeria : Spotlight on Wole Soyinka
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Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka known as Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, for...

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Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka known as Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, for a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence" the first sub-Saharan African to be honored in that category.
Soyinka has been a strong critic of successive Nigerian (and African at large) governments, especially the country's many military dictators, as well as other political tyrannies, including the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe.
Much of his writing has been concerned with the oppressive boot and the irrelevance of the color of the foot that wears it
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