Details:# Full Name Wole Soyinka
Date of Birth
July 13, 1934
Place of Birth
Date of Death
Still alive as of the current date (January 26, 2024)
Place of Death
N/A
Education
University of Leeds, (Bachelor’s degree)
Spouses Names
Unknown
Children Names
Unknown
Parents Names
Unknown
Known Affiliates Names
Christopher Okigbo, Chinua Achebe
Affiliated Organizations’ Names
Unknown
Wole Soyinka is a renowned Nigerian playwright, poet, and essayist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, becoming the first African laureate. He studied at the University of Leeds in the UK, where he began writing plays that drew on his Yorùbá heritage. His first major works, The Swamp Dwellers and The Lion and the Jewel, date from this period. In 1960, Soyinka received a Rockefeller Foundation grant to research traditional performance practices in Africa. His play A Dance of the Forest, a satire of the colonial elite, was chosen to be performed during Nigeria’s independence festivities[1][3]. Specific details such as spouses, children, and parents’ names for Wole Soyinka are not readily available in the public domain.
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