Wole Soyinka
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 Wole Soyinka facts

• He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to be honored in that category
• Soyinka was born into a Yoruba family in Abeokuta
• After studying in Nigeria and the UK, he worked with the Royal Court Theatre in London
• He went on to write plays that were produced in both countries, in theatres and on radio
• He took an active role in Nigeria's political history and its struggle for independence from Great Britain
• In 1965, he seized the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service studio and broadcast a demand for the cancellation of the Western Nigeria Regional Elections
• In 1967 during the Nigerian Civil War, he was arrested by the federal government of General Yakubu Gowon and put in solitary confinement for two years
• Soyinka has been a strong critic of successive Nigerian governments, especially the country's many military dictators, as well as other political tyrannies, including the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe
• Much of his writing has been concerned with "the oppressive boot and the irrelevance of the colour of the foot that wears it"
• During the regime of General Sani Abacha (1993–98), Soyinka escaped from Nigeria on a motorcycle via the "NADECO Route