Wole Soyinka (born in 1934) works include the play The Lion and the Jewel in 1963, his prison memoirs The Man Died in 1972, and Ate, The Years of Childhood in 1982, an autobiography.
He was the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1986.
Why is Wole Soyinka famous?
Wole Soyinka was a Nigerian author, who was a political prisoner in Nigeria 1967-1969.