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Wole Soyinka: The Literary Lion
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:51:26
Publish Date: 2019-11-04 02:05:09
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Africa's preeminent writer, and one of its greatest advocates for democracy and justice, talks here about the activism that landed him in solitary confinement for two years during Nigeria's civil war. Wole Soyinka was the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He describes here his life growing up under British colonial rule, and explains why his favorite form of literary expression is theater.

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