The United States has revoked the visa of Nigerian author and playwright Wole Soyinka. Earlier this year, the 91-year-old indicated that the U.S. consulate in Lagos had called him in for an interview ...

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He’s been called many names: rebel, sage, prophet, troublemaker, genius. He’s faced dictators, outlived regimes, and given Nigeria a seat at the global literary table. But in October 2025, the name ...

On October 28, Wole Soyinka, world-renowned Nigerian poet, author, playwright and professor and the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, revealed that the US government had ...

Nobel laureate and critic of Donald Trump, Wole Soyinka, announced at a press conference in Nigeria on Tuesday that his U.S. visa has been revoked, saying the decision came after he publicly likened ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by With the Off Broadway debut of his 1958 play “The Swamp Dwellers,” the Nigerian Nobel laureate looks back on the writer he was when he was starting ...