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Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet, author, teacher and political activist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.

Exquisite: The miniature ivory sculpture of Queen Idia, mother of Esigie, the Oba of Benin (1504 to 1550)
ANTHONY ENAHORO

Wole Soyinka: The mystery of the mask

You Must Set Forth At Dawn chronicles events in the writer’s life, inc

  • Wole Soyinka
5 min read
Eritrea President Isaias-Afwerki.(Feisal Omar/Reuters)
ERITREA

Open letter to Eritrea’s president: Let us visit detained activists and journalists

103 of Africa’s most prominent thinkers ask to visit their incarcerated colleagues in Eritrea

  • Wole Soyinka
  • John Githongo 1
10 min read