Black History: Wole Soyinka
Written by Andria on February 25, 2018
First African to receive the Nobel Prize in literature.
Born Akinwande Oluwole “Wole” Babatunde Soyinka on July 13, 1934, in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Soyinka is a playwright, poet, novelist, and literary critic. He has published hundreds of works in his lifetime. Some of his works include:
The Interpreters (1965)
Season of Anomy (1973)
The Man Died: Prison Notes (1972)
Aké ( 1981)
Death and the Kings Horseman (1975)
Soyinka won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
