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| Prof Wole Soyinka |
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka was born 13 July 1934. He is a Nigerian writer, notable especially as a playwright and poet. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African in Africa and the diaspora to be so honoured.
He took an active role in Nigeria's political history and its struggle for independence from Great Britain. In 1965, he seized the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service studio and broadcast a demand for the cancellation of the Western Nigeria Regional Elections. In 1967 during the Nigerian Civil War, he was arrested by the federal government of General Yakubu Gowon and put in solitary confinement for two years.
Soyinka has strongly criticized many Nigerian 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 colour of the foot that wears it"
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