On the 13th of July, Professor Wole Soyinka will turn 80 and the University of Lagos is hosting a 4-day conference in his honour The University of Lagos (UNILAG) will be hosting a four-day ...

The University of Ibadan (UI) has inaugurated the Wole Soyinka Institute to immortalise one of its most distinguished alumni and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Oluwole Soyinka, as part of its 76th Founders’ ...

Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, says he will speak on President Bola Tinubu’s government when he has something to say, asking Nigerians not to set a timetable for him. Soyinka, who made this ...

In 1986 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The same year he was awarded the Commander of the Federal Republic, CFR. Born in Abeokuta, Ogun state, Wole Soyinka is only rivalled in popularity and ...

Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka on Tuesday paid a courtesy visit to the Ooni of Ife, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, at his Ile Oodua Palace in Ile-Ife, an engagement rich in cultural ...

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has hailed Benue State Governor Hyacinth Iormem Alia for significant breakthroughs in the state’s industrial development. The global literary icon spoke after an ...

Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has criticised what he described as the excessive deployment of security operatives around the family of President Bola Tinubu, warning that such overreach ...

Renowned Nigerian Professor — Wole Soyinka is in mourning as he just received reports of the death of one of his daughters. Wole Soyinka lost his daughter, Iyetade who was born in 1965 MAKING HER 48.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by With the Off Broadway debut of his 1958 play “The Swamp Dwellers,” the Nigerian Nobel laureate looks back on the writer he was when he was starting ...