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Poetry, Always A Work In Progress, Says Wole Soyinka At 2025 ProvidusBank Poetry Café

It was a wonder to see the sage, Nigerian Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka man the stage at the 6th ProvidusBank World Poetry Day Café, held on March 21 at Terra Kulture Arena in Lagos. The ...
The News Chronicle

Biodun Jeyifo: The Intellectual as a Revolutionary

The inaugural lecture of Professor Wole Soyinka in the 1980/81 period at the then University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, was expectedly explosive.
The Nation Newspaper

UI launches Wole Soyinka Institute to immortalise Nobel Laureate

The University of Ibadan (UI) has inaugurated the Wole Soyinka Institute to immortalise one of its most distinguished alumni and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Oluwole Soyinka, as part of its 76th Founders’ ...
The New York Times

At 90, Wole Soyinka Revisits His Younger, More Optimistic Self

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by With the Off Broadway debut of his 1958 play “The Swamp Dwellers,” the Nigerian Nobel laureate looks back on the writer he was when he was starting ...
Naija NewsOpinion

Our Leaders Too Eager To Step Into Shoes Of Colonial Masters – Soyinka

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has stated that government representatives were eager to step into the colonisers’ shoes ...
Naija Gist - Latest

7 interesting facts about the Nigerian Nobel Laureate you should know

As Nigerian Literary icon, Wole Soyinka, turns 82 today, here are 7 pretty interesting facts you probably didn't know about him. The literary icon is an author, playwright and poet known for hundreds ...