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Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka  ( Yoruba :  Akínwándé Olúwo̩lé Babátúndé S̩óyíinká ; born 13 July 1934), known as  Wole Soyinka  is a  Nigerian   playwright ,  poet  and  essayist . He was awarded the 1986  Nobel Prize in Literature , the first sub-Saharan African to be honoured in that category. Soyinka was born into a  Yoruba  family in  Abeokuta . In 1954, he attended  Government College in Ibadan , and subsequently  University College Ibadan  and the  University of Leeds  in England. After studying in  Nigeria  and the  UK , he worked with the  Royal Court Theatre  in London. He went on to write plays that were produced in both countries, in theatres and on radio. He took an active role in  Nigeria 's political history and its struggle for independence from  Great Britain . In 1965, he seized the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service studio ...