7 Things You Need To Know About Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka was conceived Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Babatunde Soyinka on July 13, 1934, in Abeokuta, Nigeria.

Soyinka is a writer, dramatist and artist, who has distributed many works, including dramatization, books, articles and verse, and universities everywhere throughout the world are searching him out as a meeting teacher.

1.He has been hitched thrice and separated twice.

2. He was detained for 22 months as common war followed between the central government and the Biafrans.

3. He was granted the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the primary African to be regarded.

4. He educated at the colleges 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 solid pundit of progressive Nigerian governments, particularly the nation's numerous military despots, and other political oppressive regimes, incorporating the Mugabe administration in Zimbabwe.

7. He played a dynamic part in Nigeria's political history and its battle for autonomy from Great Britain.