Wole Soyinka is among contemporary Africa's greatest writers. He is also one of the continent's most imaginative advocates of native culture and of the humane social order it embodies. Born in Western Nigeria in 1934, Soyinka grew up in an Anglican mission compound in Ak. A precocious student, he first attended the parsonage's primary school, where his father was headmaster, and then a nearby ...

Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.

Biography of Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka, plus links to all of his works currently in print.