Wole soyinka biography pdf

Profile of Wole Soyinka By Adeyinka Makinde Akinwale Oluwole Soyinka holds the distinction of being the first African winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. His works, which have encompassed drama, novel and poetry genres, have tended to reflect the syncretism of Yoruban culture and the subversive instincts of his Egba heritage; traits which also marked the career of his famous musician cousin Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. With his distinctive bushy Afro and fulsome goatee, whitened over the course of time, Soyinka's physical appearance, cutting the seemingly contradictory figure of a free spirited eccentric with the stentorian bearings befitting an academic, has often been matched by the deeds of the man: one whose facility with the complex usage of formal language is distilled through an engaging acerbity and an often indelicate witticism. Rebellious, raffish, and something of a loose canon, he is not unlike his contemporaries Chinua Achebe and Ngugi Wa Thio

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Soyinka has been a consistently courageous voice for human rights world over and a force in national politics.

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Professor Soyinka has been a social activist since his undergraduate days in the University College, Ibadan where he founded the Pyrates.

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Wole Soyinka, in full Akinwande Olu Wole Soyinka, was born on J, in Abeokuta, Nigeria.