Wole Soyinka

Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka (b. July 13, 1934) is a Nigerian writer (considered to be Africa's most distinguished playwright) and the first African winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986.

External links

• State of the Bully: Wole Soyinka's theater of dictatorship...
• Study guide for The Lion and the Jewel, The Trials of Brother Jero, and Madmen and Specialists
• Reith Lectures 2004 given by Soyinka on 'The Climate of Fear'
• Encyclopedia entry
• Interview with Soyinka at UC Berkeley
• Short biography, brief excerpt, list of works, and links

See also: List of African writers

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To Do: Larger Biography, links to works, general themes, political activism in Nigerian politics.

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