Wole Soyinka
b. 1934 · Nigeria · Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1986
First African Nobel laureate in Literature; playwright and political prisoner.
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- Chinua Achebe
1930 – 2013 · Literature
Their parallel projects defined Nigerian letters after independence.
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