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Wole Soyinka - Biography - English
URL: http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1986/soyinka-bio.html

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Cry Sorrow - English
URL: http://www.nathanielturner.com/crysorrow.htm

Biographical Information on African Writers

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Wole Soyinka - French
URL: http://www.eip-cifedhop.org/publications/thematique7/Soyinka.html

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Thématique n° 7 Cultures, éducation et sociétés La place des droits de l'homme

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Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents - English
URL: http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/nobel/1986/1986c.html

When Wole Soyinka, the 52-year-old Nigerian writer who was recently awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, was jailed and later exiled for his involvement with Biafran secessionists in the 1960s, the result was a powerful nonfiction book, "The Man Died."

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Emory Magazine: Spring 1997: Wole Soyinka - English
URL: http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_MAGAZINE/spring97/wole.html

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A Dramatic Life Exiled Nigerian playwright, activist, and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka '96H finds sanctuary at Emory By John D. Thomas

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Conversation with Wole Soyinka - English
URL: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/Elberg/Soyinka/soyinka-con0.html

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This interview is part of the Institute's "Conversations with History" series, and uses Internet technology to share with the public Berkeley's distinction as a global forum for ideas.

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Wole Soyinka - French
URL: http://www.republique-des-lettres.com/s/soyinka.shtml

Appel à des sanctions internationales contre le Nigéria Accusations de trahison Saro-Wiwa, Ken Wole Soyinka en librairie

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Presidential Lectures: Wole Soyinka - English
URL: http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/soyinka/soyon.html

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Topical Excerpts from Interviews with Wole Soyinka.

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UNESCO - Wole Soyinka - English
URL: http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php@URL_ID=8329&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.h

The Nigerian Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature and President of the International Writers Parliament, Wole Soyinka, was appointed UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in 1994 for the promotion of African culture, programmes and communication.

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Wole Soyinka Winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature - English
URL: http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/literature/1986a.html

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Wole Soyinka - English
URL: http://www.literature-awards.com/nobelprize_winners/wole_soyinka.htm

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Biography. Nobel Lecture. Novels. Poetry. Plays.

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Wole Soyinka (1934- ) - English
URL: http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc53.html

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Wole Soyinka was born Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka in Abeokuta, Nigeria on July 13, 1934. The son of a canon in the Anglican Church, Soyinka grew up in an Anglican mission compound in Aké. However, his parents were careful to balance this colonial, English-speaking environment with regular visits to his father's ancestral home in Isara.

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Wole Soyinka- Nobel Lecture - English
URL: http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1986/soyinka-lecture.html

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This Past Must Address Its Present

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Presidential Lectures: Wole Soyinka: Introduction - English
URL: http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/soyinka/

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Wole Soyinka is among contemporary Africa's greatest writers. He is also one of the continent's most imaginative advocates of native culture and of the humane social order it embodies. Born in Western Nigeria in 1934, Soyinka grew up in an Anglican mission compound in Aké.

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