Soyinka

[shaw-ying-kuh]

noun

1. Wole born 1934, Nigerian playwright, novelist, and poet: Nobel Prize 1986.

Soyinka

/ sɔˈjɪŋkə /

noun

1. Wole (ˈwoːle). born 1934, Nigerian dramatist, novelist, poet, and literary critic. His works include the plays The Strong Breed (1963), The Road (1965), and Kongi's Harvest (1966), the novel The Interpreters (1965), and the political essays The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness (1999); forced into exile by the military regime (1993–98). Nobel prize for literature 1986

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Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has said the US revoked his visa and banned him from the country.

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Soyinka called the invitation a "rather curious love letter from an embassy" in a news conference held on Tuesday and told organisations hoping to invite him to the US "not to waste their time".

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When asked if he would consider going back to the US, Soyinka said: "How old am I?"

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Soyinka affirmed on Tuesday that he no longer had his green card – and jokingly added that it had "fallen between the fingers of a pair of scissors and it got cut into a couple of pieces".

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These essays by the acclaimed African novelist and post-colonial theorist include pieces on important contemporaries including Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, but also delves into the links between language and identity.

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