- By Halimah Olamide
The Nobel Prize has said that Nigeria’s Wole Soyinka is the finest poetical playwright to have written in English language.
The global body that honoured Soyinka in 1986 with a prize in Literature, stated this as it’s celebration of the Nigerian writer on his 90th birthday.
Soyinka clocked 90 on Saturday July 13 in what was marked in many parts of the country with lectures, dramas, book readings, and others.
“The creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another.”
“Wole Soyinka has been characterised as one of the finest poetical playwrights to have written in English,” The Nobel Prize stated on Wednesday
Soyinka is the author of successful books such as The Man Died, Death and the Kings Horseman, Trial of Brother Jero, Ake: The Years of My Youth, Ibadan: The Penkelemis Years, You Must Set Forth at Dawn, The Interpreter, and lately Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth.