Wole Soyinka
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title:
Wole Soyinka
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Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "wide cultural perspective and... poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence", the first sub-Saharan African to win the Prize in literature. In July 2024, President Bola Tinubu renamed the National Arts Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos, after Soyinka. Tinubu announced this in a tribute he wrote to celebrate Soyinka in
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Nigerian writer (born 1934)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wole_Soyinka
date created:
2001-11-03T14:55:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T19:26:57Z
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