Wole Soyinka
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Biography
Full Name: Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde "Wole" Soyinka
Wole Soyinka was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1934. He is an author, playwright, poet, and political activist, whose prolific body of work includes The Interpreters, his debut novel, which was published in 1965, and the play Death and the King’s Horseman, which was first performed in 1976. Soyinka was twice jailed for his criticism of the Nigerian government, and he destroyed his green card in 2016 when Donald Trump was elected president of the United States.
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Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is at once a savagely witty whodunit, a scathing indictment of Nigeria's political elite, and a provocative call to arms from one of the country's most relentless political activists and the continent's ...
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