“Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves, divided into two categories: the servile and the rebellious.”

— Wole Soyinka

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About Wole Soyinka

Writer • Nigerian

Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, known as Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first sub-Saharan African to be honored in that...

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