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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “I am a glutton for tranquility,” says Wole Soyinka. The 72-year-old Nigerian writer ...

When Wole Soyinka, Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winning author and playwright, heard that rioting had broken out in his country last November, he got on an airplane and headed home. Soyinka, among Africa's ...

The victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential race could jeopardize U.S. support in Nigeria's fight against Boko Haram, according to Nigerian Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka. In an exclusive ...

The News magazine of 16 December, 2002 published what it gleefully described as a vintage Wole Soyinka interview. Unlike the ThisDay newspaper that recently kissed the dust and ruined Ben Murray-Bruce ...

The bestiality and violent criminal activities of that dreaded Boko Haram group stands condemned by every believer in the sanctity of human life. The dastardly act of this group, in the last couple of ...

I share Wole Soyinka’s outrage: the roar of a celebrated writer and Nobel Prize winner whose accolades travel ahead of him wherever he goes. A man who has taught in some of the world’s best ...

Wole Soyinka, the first African writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, once fled to the United States from Nigeria. Now the fickle winds of politics are pushing him in the opposite ...

The US consulate in Lagos has revoked the visa of Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate said Tuesday. "I want to assure the consulate... that I'm very content with the revocation of my visa ...

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has rejected an invitation by the United States Consulate in Nigeria to attend a visa reinterview, warning that under President Donald Trump, whom he described ...