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- NAME: Wole Soyinka
- OCCUPATION: Activist, Playwright
- BIRTH DATE: July 13, 1934 (Age: 78)
- EDUCATION: Government College, University College, University of Leeds
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Abeokuta, Nigeria
- ZODIAC SIGN: Cancer
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Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright and political activist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
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Wole Soyinka wrote his first important play, A Dance of the Forests, in the late 1950s. It satirizes the fledgling nation by showing that the present is no more a golden age than was the past. The Nobel-winning writer sometimes writes of modern West Africa in a satirical style, but his serious intent and his belief in the evils inherent in the exercise of power are usually present in his work.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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