By A Twitter user, @allibaloo shared a story of how his son got an autograph from Professor Wole Soyinka.
@allibaloo was riding in a train in Nigeria when his son spotted the Prof and asked for an autograph.
Contrary to several views that Prof. Wole is a strict one, he answered the young boy, providing him with an autograph of his.
My Son braves the odds. He approached Prof. Soyinka for an autograph. Baba obliged him.
Children get away with a lot. pic.twitter.com/m5kIwChZ1m
— Alli-Balogun H.Lekan (@allibaloo) December 29, 2020
Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, born 13 July 1934, is a Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist in the English language.
He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature,the first sub-Saharan African to be honoured in that category.
Soyinka was born into a Yoruba family in Abeokuta. In 1954, he attended Government College in Ibadan,and subsequently University College Ibadan and the University of Leeds in England.
After studying in Nigeria and the UK, he worked with the Royal Court Theatre in London. He went on to write plays that were produced in both countries, in theatres and on radio.
He took an active role in Nigeria’s political history and its struggle for independence from Great Britain. In 1965, he seized the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service studio and broadcast a demand for the cancellation of the Western Nigeria Regional Elections.
