Wole Soyinka
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- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Novelists, Short Story Writers, African Americans, Blacks, Drama, Theater, Playwrights, Entertainment, Entertainers, Poetry, Poets
- Curriculum: African History
Article abstract: The first African ever to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Soyinka is generally held to be Nigeria’s foremost contemporary dramatist and possibly the most influential of all black African playwrights. Although he has earned high praise equally for his poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, it is as a playwright that Soyinka has distinguished himself.
Early Life
Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka (pronounced Shoy-ink-a) was born July 13, 1934, in Abeokuta in Western Nigeria, to Ayo and Eniola Soyinka. His mother was a successful...
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