FACT YOU DID NOT KNOW ABOUT WOLE SOYINKA

                                                   
                                                                                                            WOLE SOYINKA
 The name, Wole Soyinka, is no doubt, phenomenal. It embodies many great things activism, social crusade, satire, theatre, drmatization, literature, and the list is endless. Prowess has been decicated to the cause of social justice and cultural originality for years, He is one of Nigeria's finest writers, and sort a jack o Is the best known as a playwright. Alongside his literary career, he also worked as an actor and in theaters in Nigeria and Great Britian. His works also include poetry, novels, and essays.
   Wole Soyinka was among the founders of the first Confraternity in Nigeria.
In 1952, Soyinka with six friends founded a Pyrate Confraternity in the University College Ibadan.  This group aims to bridge the gap between elite college students and the middle class. It seek to judge evil doers and minimize corruption. Thegroup has survrved and expanded with its kinds in many countries today. Talk of Confratenities In Nigeria today and you'll her the name. Wole Soyinka as the brain behind its existence.
     














 Wole Soyinka is the First African to win the Noble Prize for Literature
 What an awesome way to reward execellence He had written in virtually all genres of writing. He through-provoking poems such as "The Interpreters", "Abiku" and "Night" are unique and powerfully aesthetic. He also wrote while in prison, Season of Agony (1973) talk about his prison terms. Ake(1981) describes his early childhood.
   Wole Soyinka is  related to the family of Ransome Kuti
 Soyinka's mother is a member of the notable Ransome Kuti's family. The Ransome Kuti's are a prominenet family in Nigeria. The renowned, fierce Funmilayo Ransome Kuti was one of the few courageous women's right activities Nigeria has ever had.   Ransome-Kuti's family are known for their countribution to the nation in art, music, cultural values, and politics.
   Soyinka resigned from his University position as a protest
 He had to protest against the anti-people policy introduced by the government of the day. When he felt his position in the University would prevent him from achieving this aim, he resigned.
   He served Jail terms
  Wole Soyinka's love and partriotism for Nigeria earned him imprisonment, not once. In 1965, he was arrested due to his firm stand to prosecute the issue of election malpractice. Wole Soyinka forced a radio announcer to broadcast that the election was false, claming that it was rigged. After three months, the campaign from the international Community of Writers prompted his release.













  In 1967, during the Civil War, He was accused of supporting the Biafrians. For this too, he was imprisoned for 22 months.
  He wrote in Prison
 While in Prison, Soyinka's Muse never forsook him. Through denied access to materials, he manageed to smuggle in pieces of tissues and liters to write on. Even while in the prison, he continued to writes notes and never stopped speaking tough against the government for its injustice and violation of fundamental human rights.
 He exiled himself
   In the bid to mediate between the two elephants in the Nigerian Civil War of 1967-1970, Soyinka secretly organized a meetng attended by himself, the then military Governor Chkuwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and others. He went into hiding after this event was laterexposed. Also in 1994, during the rule of General, Sani Abacha, he feared being arrested for advocating democaracy in Nigeria. So, he field the country for Paris. Later, He was to be seen living in the United states, However when Sani Abacha died in 1998, the indefatigable Soyinka returned home.
  He is Considered foremost a political activist









Nigerians values Wole Soyinka Largely for his actions against injustice. What really made him famous was his criticism of successive government, Most of the popular works, especially his plays, were a form of protest against societal injustice and exploitation of the people by the government.
  He has an undying love for Nelson Mandela
  Wole Soyinka displayed his love for the South African madiba Nelson Mandela when he dedicated his speech to him on the day of his award. Whoknows, the Noble Laureate winner must have got his lion-heartedness againstinjustice from the husband of South African Aprtheld system Both Madiba and Wole soyinka had been imprisoned for fighting the case of social justice and bothremained unbroken and steadfast during their incarceration.














Wole Soyinka married three wives and divorced twice.
  Soyinka married his first wife Barbara Dixon in 1958, a British writer, And married Olaide Idowu as the his second wife in 1963 his second wife was a Nigerian librarian. Both ended in a divorce. His third wife was Doherty Folake Soyinka was his student while he lectured at the University of Ife(Now Obafemi Awolowo University) Even through Folake's parents despised her from marrying him due to his fame and especially his campus activties which were at the time considered "dangerous", they later agreed when her sibling consented to the Idea. He married her in 1989.