Wole Soyinka became the first Black African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, and is now one of the continent’s most revered authors. But two decades earlier, he was sent to prison without ...

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said his recent interview with Channels Television was misrepresented, thereby rendering his remarks completely unrecognisable. The TV station aired the one and ...

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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “I am a glutton for tranquility,” says Wole Soyinka. The 72-year-old Nigerian writer ...

When Wole Soyinka, Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winning author and playwright, heard that rioting had broken out in his country last November, he got on an airplane and headed home. Soyinka, among Africa's ...

I share Wole Soyinka’s outrage: the roar of a celebrated writer and Nobel Prize winner whose accolades travel ahead of him wherever he goes. A man who has taught in some of the world’s best ...

Nigerian Nobel Literature Prize winner Wole Soyinka says the United States has revoked his non-immigrant visa issued last year. Speaking to reporters in Lagos on Tuesday, the 91-year-old author said ...

Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka disclosed on Wednesday that he will not honour an invitation by the United States Consulate in Nigeria to a visa reinterview scheduled for today, Thursday, September ...