Hakiim:
Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: Akinwándé Oluwo̩lé Babátúndé S̩óyinká (born 13 July 1934), known as Wole Soyinka (pronounced [wɔlé ʃójĩŋká]), is a Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature,[2] the first African to be honoured 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.[3]

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".[4] During the regime of General Sani Abacha (1993–98), Soyinka escaped from Nigeria on a motorcycle via the "NADECO Route." Abacha later proclaimed a death sentence against him "in absentia."[4] With civilian rule restored to Nigeria in 1999, Soyinka returned to his nation.

A descendant of a Remo family of Isara-Remo, Soyinka was born the second of six children, in the city of Abẹokuta, Ogun State in Nigeria, at that time a British dominion. His father, Samuel Ayodele Soyinka (whom he called S.A. or "Essay", was an Anglican minister and the headmaster of St. Peters School in Abẹokuta. Soyinka's mother, Grace Eniola Soyinka (whom he dubbed the "Wild Christian", owned a shop in the nearby market. She was a political activist within the women's movement in the local community. She was also Anglican. As much of the community followed indigenous Yorùbá religious tradition, Soyinka grew up in a religious atmosphere of syncretism, with influences from both cultures. He was raised in a religious family, attending church services and singing in the choir from an early age; however Soyinka himself became an atheist later in life.[15][16] His father's position enabled him to get electricity and radio at home. He writes extensively about his childhood in one of his memoirs, Aké: The Years of Childhood (1981).[17]

His mother was one of the most prominent members of the influential Ransome-Kuti family: she was the daughter of Rev. Canon J. J. Ransome-Kuti, and sister to Olusegun Azariah Ransome-Kuti, Oludotun Ransome-Kuti and sister in-law to Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. Among Soyinka's cousins were the musician Fela Kuti, the human rights activist Beko Ransome-Kuti, politician Olikoye Ransome-Kuti and activist Yemisi Ransome-Kuti.


Wole Soyinka has been critical about Nigerian Politicians of today.

He criticize when he needs to and praise when you deserve one.

He is fearless.

He is Courageous.

He is not a man of double standard.

I salute and celebrate you sir.


Kindly mention any other one you know in Nigeria of today.

NO INSULT, SENTIMENT, TRIBAL OR RELIGIOUS COMMENTS PLEASE

meccuno:
[s][/s] I respect the man. but he is not a legend to me. maybe to the yorubas.

Hakiim:
Wole Soyinka's type of cultist is not what is practice today.

They practice their cultist for academic purpose

kernel001:


Bro... Never defend what you didn't witness, I never believed, till I ran into some pictures. He doesn't deal with the killer cultists what do you make of this picture?

Hakiim:


Good one bro... but he is been only acknowledged as a founder of such.

believe me, he doesnt practice such then.

Hakiim:


Good one bro... but he is been only acknowledged as a founder of such.

believe me, he doesnt practice such then.

yomi962:
tah God forbid I am a Yoruba and he is not a legend to us. I will even take chinua achebe over this cultist

kernel001:


Bro... Never defend what you didn't witness, I never believed, till I ran into some pictures. He doesn't deal with the killer cultists what do you make of this picture?

speedyGonzales:


you do know that confraternities exist in American universities to promote better students but has been adapted to take on a sinister nature in Nigeria. Not by Soyinka obviously... he could not predict what other people will turn it in to.

I know he has occasionally given poor judgement to Nigerians like Buhari! but he is human too.

speedyGonzales:


you do know that confraternities exist in American universities to promote better students but has been adapted to take on a sinister nature in Nigeria. Not by Soyinka obviously... he could not predict what other people will turn it in to.

I know he has occasionally given poor judgement to Nigerians like Buhari! but he is human too.