Question

Whole Soyinka was awarded Nobel Prize in Literature in..........?

• A. 1984
• B. 1991
• C. 1986
• D. 1978

Answer 1

Answer:

C. 1986

Wole Soyinka

• Nigerian playwright, novelist , poet and essayist

• He was born into Yoruba family in Abeokuta

• He was an active Nigerian politician and freedom fighter

• In 1967 during the Nigerian civil war he was arrested by Federal Government of general Yakubu Gowon and put in solitary confinement for two years.

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