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Professor Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (aka Wole Soyinka) won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first sub-Saharan African to be honoured in that category

Here, he reads "No! He said" a tribute to Nelson Mandela.
Wole Soyinka's Tribute Poem to Mandela; "No! He Said" - YouTube

From his special anthology on Nelson Mandela; Mandela's Earth And other Poems, Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka elected and recited the poem "No! He Sa...

02:25 PM - Mar 31, 2024
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Wole Soyinka Released from Military Detention | October 1969 - YouTube

Footage of Wole Soyinka, the internationally known Nigerian playwright, speaking to a reporter after being released from 26 months of detention without trial...

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