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Prof. Wole Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka was born on 13th July 1934, in the town of Ijebu Isara, close to Abeokuta, in Western Nigeria (which at that time was a British dominion), as second of six children of Samuel Ayodele Soyinka and Grace Eniola Soyinka. Year 1986 was undoubtedly the year of major glory and, at the same time of triumph of Wole Soyinka, over hatred dictatorship arrangements and political violence of African regimes. The Royal Swedish Academy awarded him with Nobel Prize for Literature, as the one “who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence”. This way the foremost Nigerian dramatist became, at the same time, the first African laureate of Nobel Prize, enrolling for good to the history of world’s literature, and to the heritage of human nation. The Nobel Lecture which Soyinka proclaimed on this occasion, devoted to the person on South African politic Nelson Mandela, criticized apartheid and politics of racial segregation of then South African government. That year brought him another award - Agip Prize for Literature and at the end of it, was awarded with Nigerian national decoration, Commander of the Federal Republic. Wole Soyinka a political activist of the first order has a new book titled “You must set forth at dawn” is married with ten children and still counting.
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