An In-depth expository of the Living Legend A Writer A Scholar An Activist Professor 'Wole Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka popularly known as ‘Wole Soyinka’ was born into a Yoruba family, the second of six children, descendant of a Remo family of Isara-Remo in the city of Abeokuta , Ogun State in Nigeria, on the 13th of July, 1934 . He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature the first African to be honoured in that category. His Nobel acceptance speech, "This Past Must Address Its Present", was devoted to South African freedom-fighter Nelson Mandela Soyinka's mother, Grace Eniola Soyinka (whom he dubbed the "Wild Christian"), owned a shop in the nearby market. She was a political activist within the women's movement in the local community. She was also an Anglican He was raised in a religious family, attending church services and singing in the choir from an early age; however Soyinka himself ...
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