Profesor Wole Soyinka, Poet, Playwright, Novelist and retired University teacher is the first African Nobel Prize winner in Literature(1986). He is generally regarded as the most dogged human rights, anti-corruption and civil liberties crusader from Nigeria.
Soyinka was born on July 13th, 1934 in Ake Abeokuta in the present day Ogun State, South-western Nigeria. The Literary community in Nigeria, chidi opara reports learnt have lined up activities to mark the Icon's seventy-fifth birthday anniversary.
