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Wole Soyinka (Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka)

Date of Birth: 13 July 1934
Place of Birth: Abeokuta


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Talking it over

Supporters of the 'Yoruba Agenda' include: Dele Adesina Wole Soyinka and several retired state and military figures...


Mob rule

Obasanjo was already under public attack by former allies such as Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and former Inspector General of Police M...


An exit for the militicians

(After the alleged plot of 1995 Obasanjo and Yar'Adua were arrested; in the ‘Nadeco bomb trial' of 1996 former Finance Minister Olu Falae was detained and warrants were issued for the arrest of writer Wole Soyinka and lawyer Anthony Enahoro)...


From the shadows

MD has friends all over western Nigeria being one of only two northerners praised by Wole Soyinka in The Man Died and oddly for a northern aristocrat he was a fan of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's Afro-beat music...


Cross-border crimes

Later in 1994 Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka was said to have fled from Nigeria through Benin (despite his passport having been seized) using travel documents obtained from a United Nations office in Cotonou with the apparent blessing of Soglo's government...


The general's labyrinth

Alani Akinrade a former Chief of Army Staff; exiled Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka; and veteran politician Anthony Enahoro – say they have received messages from Abuja offering to drop treason charges against them and floating the idea of a government of national unity...


Labour intensive

Cook has called for tougher economic sanctions against General Sani Abacha's regime in Nigeria following the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa in November 1995 as has Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Tony Lloyd (47) who described the treason charges against Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and 11 others in March as 'a mark of this regime's arrogance and stupidity' adding that 'Britain and the international community must put pressure on Abacha to release all political prisoners immediately...


Second thoughts

And attempts to extradite exiled oppositionists listed on the charge sheet such as Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka Gen...


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