On his 82nd birthday, Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright and poet Wole Soyinka reads his poem, A Vision of Peace. First broadcast on Front Row, 13 July 2016. Nobel Prize winner reads A Vision of ...

Happy Birthday Prof. Wole Soyinka: In celebration of your wit and literary mischief, I am hereby reproducing, what I personally regard as your best poem, "Telephone conversation". I read this poem in ...

During a speaking engagement in Lagos on October 28, Nigerian author and playwright Wole Soyinka confirmed that his non-resident United States visa had been revoked. The 91-year-old author made ...

Poetry lovers had not one, but two dates this week to be grateful for. July 12 July marked the 111th birth anniversary of Pablo Neruda. A day later, on the 13th, Wole Soyinka turned 81. I have written ...

Wole Soyinka’s literary and activist careers are as marvelous and impressive as his full name, Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, which Pantheon executive editor Erroll McDonald told me to look up.

Peter Godwin Professor Soyinka, you’re not an ivory-tower kind of writer. You are not a stranger to danger, and in fact you’ve been imprisoned on at least two occasions, once in solitary confinement.

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With over 50 pieces of work, his writings include novels, poems, memoirs and essays that capture his cultural traditions.

Wole Soyinka became the first Black African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, and is now one of the continent’s most revered authors. But two decades earlier, he was sent to prison without ...

Wole Soyinka said his description of Donald Trump as "Idi Amin in white face" could have played a role in his visa revocation ...