Happy 90th Birthday, Wole Soyinka

 

Reel Illustrated wishes novelist, poet playwright,  and essayist  Professor Wole Soyink a very happy 90th birthday. Born in 1934,  Soyinka is the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and a first cousin of late music maestro and activist,  Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì. 

Soyinka's works include Ake, Ibadan,The Man Died: Prison Notes,   The Trials of Brother Jero, A Play of Giants, The Lion and the Jewel and Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth. 

Happy Birthday sir.