In the African literary precinct, where minds form thoughts and thoughts mould minds, Wole Soyinka, until perhaps there is another revelation in his class, will remain the definitive African confounding literary enigma and the actual definition of literature itself for eons to come.
When Oluwole Akinwande Babatunde Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature, clocked 80 in 2014, I raised an 80-cannon salute in his honour as one of Africa’s most…
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