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Akonwande Oluwole 'Wole' Soyinka was born in 13Th July 1934 in Nigeria in a small village known as Abeokuta. He's a famed Nigerian playwright , political activist and the 1986 Nobel Laureate for the literature prize.
 Here in Kenya he is best known for the play, 'The lion and The Jewel'. His other works include: Idanre, and other Poems (1967), Poems from Prison (1969), A shuttle in the Crypt (1972) Mandela's Earth and Other Poems (1988).

"My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being."