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Wole Soyinka the literary guru By Eguriase S. M. Okaka Apart from the great William Shakespeare, the next literacy guru I knew is Wole Soyinka. I read his books in my secondary school education days and again, in my university education as a student of Theatre Arts, at the great University of Benin, Benin City. Wole, was my favorite among other African writers. Let’s learn about living legend. It gives me joy when I studied his works. He is the face of literature in Nigeria and the world knows that too. Wole Soyinka is a black Africa’s foremost dramatist and one of the most controversial and distinguished writers of this generation. As a playwright, actor, producer, poet, film maker, musician, essayist, author of scathing satirical revues (‘Before the Blackout’) and editor, Soyinka has been a champion of the responsibility of art and the artist to society. This has made him a bitter critic of society and the establishment and has involved him in some activist episodes which cost him...
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