Soyinka, Wole: - Wole Soyinka-- playwright, novelist, poet and polemical essayist--was born in Nigeria in 1934.
In 1986 he became the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature..
Educated there and at Leeds University, he worked in the British theatre before returning to West Africa in 1960.
Soyinka, Wole: - Wole Soyinka-- playwright, novelist, poet and polemical essayist--was born in Nigeria in 1934