HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO NIGERIA'S NOBEL PRIZE WINNER(AKINWALE OLUWOLE SOYINKA)

TODAY, Nigeria’s literary icon and Noble Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka clocks 75. And the drums have been rolling since last month in celebration of one of Africa’s finest writers and most fiery political activists, who is not only rich in the corpus ofworks he has done, but also now in age. Wole Soyinka was born on 13 July 1934 at Abeokuta, near Ibadan in western Nigeria. After preparatory university studies in 1954 at Government College in Ibadan, he continued at the University of Leeds, where, later, in 1973, hetook his doctorate. During the six years spent in England, he was a dramaturgist at the Royal Court Theatrein London 1958-1959. In 1960, he was awarded a Rockefeller bursary and returned to Nigeria to study African drama.At the same time, he taught drama and literature at various universities in Ibadan, Lagos, and Ife, where, since 1975, he has been professor of comparative literature. In 1960, he founded thetheatre group, “The 1960 Masks” and in 1964, the “Orisun Theatre Company”, in which he has produced his own plays and takenpart as actor. He has periodically been visiting professor at the universities of Cambridge, Sheffield, and Yale. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIR!!! WISHING YOU MANY MORE BEAUTIFUL YEARS AHEAD. Hearty Cheers!!!