Photos/Videos: Soyinka’s Metamorphosis from Childhood up to Age 87

Professor Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, known as Wole Soyinka, Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist and winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first by a sub-Saharan African was 87 on Tuesday, 13 July 2021.

*Read the story of his life (as he narrated to us in an interview) HERE.

 

*Watch the 1964 interview of Wole Soyinka and Lewis Nkosi, South African author, broadcaster and journalist with Chinua Achebe HERE

*Watch Soyinka’s 1969 interview after his release from Military detention HERE

 

Below are his photographs from childhood to adulthood.