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As the Yoruba's in Nigeria, West Africa will say,
Bowa Ni ! meaning WELCOME!
 
On this site you will be taken on a journey that will fill your knowledge repository with information and findings you knowest not, about an interesting Author, Poet, Writer, and Literary Activist who hails from the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria. His name is Wole Soyinka. So saddle up, and enjoy your trip.  

My own bias -
 
I originally became a fan of Wole Soyinka while growing up in England. Wole Soyinka was occasionally invited to my college to speak and share some of his thought provoking poems with us, including answering our imature questions whenever they feel at his feet.
 
As someone with family spread across West African and the English continent who has witnessed the cancer of post colonialsim and the imagery of corrupt governments, I am always intrigued by Soyinka's command of language, as well as his ability to use words unagressively to make corrupt leaders shake in their corrupt boots corruptly.
 
 
Soyinka in one of his thinking moments...
 
He is not only a Political Activist, but a Professor who is an icon of literature on the continent Africa, and the world as a whole. Soyinka is very outspoken on socio-political issues.

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