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Wole Soyinka in 2018 (3x4 cropped)
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Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka

(1934-07-13) 13 July 1934 (age 91)

Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka[1] (o tshotswe ka 13 Phukwi 1934) ke mokwadi wa padi le metshameko, ga mmogo le mmoki, wa kwa Nigeria. O kwadile dipadi tse tharo, dikgolaganyo tse lesome tsa dikhutshwe, metshameko e masome-mabedi le botlhano, le dibuka ka gagwe tse tlhano.[2] O buile gape a ranola dikwalo tse pedi, ga mmogo le go kwala dipego le dikhutshwe tsa dipampiri tsa dikgang le bagatisi ba bangwe ba go nna jalo. O ne a atswiwa ka tota ya Nobel Prize in Literature ya 1986.[3]

O tsaletswe mo lelapeng la batho ba ngwao ya seYoruba e e neng e amogetse tumelo ya seAnglican, mo legaeng la Aké, Abeokuta.[4][5] Soyinka o ithutile kwa Government College, Ibadan, a bo a ya go tsweledisa dithuto tsa gagwe kwa University College, Ibadan. E rile a sa ntse e le moithuti, o ne a nna mongwe wa basimolodise ba Pyrate Confraternity.[6] Soyinka o ne a tlogela Nigeria a ya go ithuta kwa Enyelane, mo Yunibesithi ya Leeds. Mo go yone nako eo, o ne a nna moeteledipele wa mmakasine wa sekolo, The Eagle, pele fa a ka nna mokwadi yo a feletseng, mo 'ngwageng tsa bo 1950.[7] Kwa Enyelane, o ne a simolola go kwala dikhutshwe le go dira direkoto tsa dithathelelo-dithuto tsa ba BBC. O kwadile metshameko e se kana ka sepe, e e neng ya diragatswa mo seromamoweng le mo ntlong tsa metshameko mo Nigeria le Enyelane, segolo bogolo mo Royal Court Theatre.[8]

  1. Dauda & Falola 2021, p. 34.
  2. Gibbs, James (1986). Wole Soyinka. Basingstoke: Macmillan. p. 3. ISBN 9780333305287.
  3. Abdullahi, Idowu (11 October 2024). "Nobel Laureate award exposed me to danger". The Punch. Retrieved 6 January 2026.
  4. "Professor Wole Soyinka – DAWN Commission". Retrieved 18 February 2026
  5. "About Wole Soyinka". Wole Soyinka Lecture Series. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  6. "About Wole Soyinka". Wole Soyinka Lecture Series. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  7. "Wole Soyinka – Narrative Landscape Press". Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  8. "Black Plays 1960s". Royal Court - Living Archive. Retrieved 18 February 2026.