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    "Wole" Soyinka CFR (/ˈwoʊleɪ sɔɪˈ(j)ɪŋkə, - ʃɔɪˈ-/ WOH-lay s(h)oy-(Y)ING-kə; Yoruba: Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé "Wọlé" Ṣóyíinká, pronounced [wɔlé ʃójĩnká];...
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  • Olaokun Soyinka (born 11 November 1958) is a Nigerian medical doctor and a former Ogun State commissioner for Health. His father, Wole Soyinka, is the...
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  • Death and the King's Horseman (category Plays by Wole Soyinka)
    Death and the King's Horseman is a play by Wole Soyinka based on a real incident that took place in Nigeria during the colonial era: the horseman of a...
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  • Ayodele Soyinka, an Anglican minister. The second of their seven children was Wole Soyinka, writer and 1986 winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. Wole Soyinka...
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  • Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa is a pan-African writing prize awarded biennially to the best literary work produced by an African. It was...
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  • Nigeria that is nominally University-based. The group was founded by Prof. Wole Soyinka in 1952 by the "Original Seven" to support human rights and social justice...
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    founded the union along with Grace Eniola Soyinka (her husband's niece and the mother of Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka),: 157  and the AWU gradually grew to...
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    The 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka (born 1934) "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones...
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  • The Interpreters (novel) (category Novels by Wole Soyinka)
    The Interpreters is a novel by Wole Soyinka, first published in London by André Deutsch in 1965 and later republished as part of the influential Heinemann...
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  • on Earth is a 2021 novel written by Nigerian playwright and novelist Wole Soyinka. It was released on 28 September 2021 by Bookcraft Africa. The novel...
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