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Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde “Wole” Soyinka CFR  Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé “Wọlé” Ṣóyínká,  born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his “wide cultural perspective and… poetic overtones fashioning the ...

Veteran entertainer, Charles Oputa aka Charley Boy has brought a swipe at Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka. Soyinka has been making the headlines lately, making comments about National importance, and has criticised followers of Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi popularly ...

May I seize this opportunity, by the way, to condemn the sanctions imposed on Channels Television, which anchored the performance of the LP candidate? Oh yes, could these rabid parochial minds of easy excitation also kindly stop flattering themselves that ...

Professor Wole Soyinka has said the shortcoming of the supporters of the Labour Party, LP, otherwise referred to as Obidients, to simply accept criticism has become their badge of honour. The Nobel laureate shared this opinion in a record released on ...

To make the needed impact, President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu must decentralized power Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka canvassed yesterday. Soyinka, who again accused Labour Party (LP) Vice-Presidential Candidate Datti Baba-Ahmed of denigrating the nation’s judiciary, also said he would want ...

Nobel Prize-winning author, Wole Soyinka, has stated that he does not have a need for any religion and does not worship any deity. He said at the public presentation of his two-volume collection of essays on Sunday. According to PMNews, Soyinka admitted ...

Nigerian author and Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka has revealed why he believes religion is the number one problem of Nigerians. According to him while speaking with a professor of African Literature, Dr. Louisa Egbunike, religion has become an excuse for ...

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We are tempted to call it a hat-trick, but we will rather call it an ongoing discussion with an audacious thinker and a born activist. Welcome to this exclusive edition of “#oneonone” with Professor Wole Soyinka.

Buhari is not in charge of Aso Rock, says Soyinka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG7EIw-TbKw Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, says he doesn’t believe that President Muhammadu Buhari is in charge of the country. Speaking on Thursday during an interview on PlusTv Africa, the renowned ...