Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Babatunde Soyinkais a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to be honored in that category...
NationalityNigerian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth13 July 1934
CityAbeokuta, Nigeria
CountryNigeria
assume meals
You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day.
centered civil mexico wars
Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.
excessive taken time
An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.
money
No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.
blatant grew peacefully
The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together.
fragment human individual share shatter understand war
A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.