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b. 1934

Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright, poet, novelist, essayist and pro-democracy activist. In 1986 he became the first African winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Also known as: A Dance of The Forests, A play of giant, Aké: The Years of Childhood, The Man Died

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No. Let me put it this way, turning anything in my life into something other people can watch, pains me. I assisted them in trying to locate a house in which I hid and operated during the civil war. They were looking for something close to one we were using during that period.

My Ruth, my Rachel, Esther, Bathsheba
Thou sum of fabled perfections
From Genesis to Revelations

The Lion and the Jewel (1959)

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===My life has always been based on very deep 'cconvictions===Wole Soyinka in Conversation

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