Past winners include five writers who went on to win Nobel Prizes: Nadine Gordimer, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Toni Morrison, Derek Walcott and Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, who won the Nobel ...

Playwright and author Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, takes aim at abuse of power in his sharply ...

The Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) has dedicated the 2024 World Book and Copyright Day to Prof Wole Soyinka, the literature Noble Laurette Soyinka, who is a ...

Wole Soyinka’s literary and activist careers are as marvelous and impressive as his full name, Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, which Pantheon executive editor Erroll McDonald told me to look up.

For his attempts to broker peace in 1967, Soyinka was imprisoned again, remaining there for the duration of the Nigerian Civil War before his eventual release in October 1969. In the face of a ...

User-Created Clip by walex007 September 7, 2018 2012-12-16T19:01:36-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/f7e/20121216193406002_hd.jpgWole Soyinka talked about his ...

All eyes in the literary world are on the 28 th of September because Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka’s new novel will be launched on the day. It is not altogether unusual for readers to be filled with ...

A new work by a Nobel laureate is generally a cause for celebration, but in Wole Soyinka’s case, it’s especially significant. It’s been nearly 50 years since he published his last novel, “The ...

Tunde Kelani, who is popular for "Saworoide," is working on a screen adaptation of Wole Soyinka's "Lion and the Jewel." Speaking to Punch, Kelani revealed that he already has Soyinka's approval to ...

Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has condemned the destruction of treasures in Timbuktu, Mali, describing the action as a threat to book culture in Africa. He said he is therefore hundred per cent in ...