The Jewel is a play heavily inspired by Ola Rotimi’s Our Husbands Have Gone Mad Again and Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel. These are literary classics that many people are familiar with ...

Prof Wole Soyinka was born on July 13 ... The Swamp Dwellers, The Lion and the Jewel, The Trial of Brother Jero, Jero’s Metamorphosis, A Dance of the Forests, Kongi’s Harvest, The Strong ...

from his grandfather at Isara Remo, young Soyinka never turned his back on any battle. He usually had the last laugh, it seemed. Wole was naturally endowed; was born into the right environ­ment ...

Award-winning actor David Ezekiel plays Lakunle in Eko Hotels Broadway-style production, the Jewel, a futuristic musical theatre inspired by Wole Soyinka’s best-seller, the Lion and the Jewel.

Younger people calling on Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka and prominent rights activist, Mr Femi Falana (SAN) to lead mass protests against the situation in Nigeria are driven by complete ...

The Alake and Paramount ruler of Egba Land, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo has urged President Bola Tinubu to declare July 13 a national day to celebrate Prof Wole Soyinka’s contribution to humanity.

Nigerian Nobel Literature Laureate Wole Soyinka said. Speaking to Reuters at his home surrounded by rainforest near the southwestern city of Abeokuta, Soyinka said the horrors inflicted by the ...

The new joiners include Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian playwright, poet, and political activist who has won international acclaim. Considered one of contemporary Africa’s greatest writers, ...