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Wole Soyinka (Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka)

Date of Birth: 13 July 1934
Place of Birth: Abeokuta


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A country at war with itself

The poet activist Wole Soyinka declared Nigeria was at war with itself and suggested the government should seek international help...


Edo's not so merry-go-round

Days after former President Olusegun Obasanjo – who has found fault with all of his successors – described Nigeria as 'fast drifting to a failed and badly divided state' under President Buhari and an economic basket case Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka uncharacteristically agreed with his kinsman...


Chip off the old block

Two of Mohammed's siblings broke surface in March after Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka pointedly refused the government's offer of its Centenary Award which named 100 distinguished Nigerians – including Gen...


How the fuel row caught fire

The latest round of shooting and bombing by the Islamist Boko Haram militia in the north (AC Vol 53 No 1 A year of living dangerously) prompted criticism from intellectuals and nobel laureate Wole Soyinka commented that Nigeria has reached a ‘dismal watershed’ when militias shoot the faithful in their places of worship...


The nearly man

Jonathan needs constitutional backing for the transition amid a growing clamour for civil disobedience and a rally led by Wole Soyinka in Abuja...


Votes that don't add up

Politically motivated murder became rampant and the Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka called the PDP 'a nest of killers'...


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