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5. Wole Soyinka
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wole_Soyinka
In a list of the best African writers it would be easy to mention any of the four who have won the
Nobel Prize in Literature: Nadine Gordimer, Naguib Mahfouz, J.M. Coetzee, or Wole Soyinka
from Nigeria. We’ve chosen Wole Soyinka to finish this list of the best African writers of recent
history because in 1986, he was the very first African writer to receive this award.
Wole Soyinka is a prolific author who’s written novels, memoirs, short stories, essays, poetry,
and numerous theatrical plays. The Nobel committee specifically called out the richness of
Soyinka’s universe that “with a cultural and poetical perspective, models the drama of human
existence.”
What to Read by Wole Soyinka: Death and the King’s Horseman
