𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗣𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗢𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗯-𝗦𝗮𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝗼 𝗕𝗲 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘇𝗲 𝗜𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲

𝗪𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗮 and 𝗧𝗶𝗻𝘂 𝗦𝗼𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗮 in 1952, the year Wole entered University College, Ibadan.

He is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language and was born on the 13th of July, 1934.

In 1986, he became the first Sub-Saharan African to be awarded a Nobel Proze in literature.

𝗔𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗡𝗢𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗟𝗔𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗦

𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱

- 1986 — 🇳🇬 Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)

- 1988 — 🇪🇬 Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)

- 1991 — 🇿🇦 Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)

- 2003 — 🇿🇦 John Coetzee (South Africa)

- 2021 — 🇹🇿 Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania).