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Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka (1935-) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, the first black African to do so. He was born near Ibadan in Western Nigeria in 1935 and educated in Nigeria and at Leeds University in England. A leading figure in African drama, he founded the Orisun theatre company in 1964. Soyinka is a playwright, an actor and teacher of drama and literature as well as a poet and essayist. In 1975, he became Professor of Comparative Literature at Ife University in Nigeria in 1975 and Professor of African Studies and Theatre at Cornell University in 1988. He has been imprisoned more than once for his criticism of the Nigerian government. Some of his works were banned, and he has been forced to spend periods ...
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