Welcome to a Conversation with History. Our guest is Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka.

Wole Soyinka is among contemporary Africa's greatest writers. He is also one of the continent's most imaginative advocates of native culture and of the humane social order it embodies. Born in Western Nigeria in 1934, Soyinka grew up in an Anglican mission compound in Ak. A precocious student, he first attended the parsonage's primary school, where his father was headmaster, and then a nearby ...

Wole Soyinka is among contemporary Africa's greatest writers. He is also one of the continent's most imaginative advocates of native culture and of the humane social order it embodies. Born in Western Nigeria in 1934, Soyinka grew up in an Anglican mission compound in Ak. A precocious student, he first attended the parsonage's primary school, where his father was headmaster, and then a nearby ...

Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.

WOLE SOYINKA. Background: Born: 1934 Residence: Nigeria Book Store: Featured Internet Links: The Nobel Prize Internet Archive.

Wole Soyinka was born in Abeokuta, southwestern Nigeria, which was then a British colony. The Soyinkas were members of the Yoruba tribe.

A. Dramatic. Life. Exiled Nigerian playwright, activist, and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka '96H finds sanctuary at Emory. By John D. Thomas.

Sanford S. Elberg Lecture; Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Wole Soyinka.