Our very own father of Literature. Literally every Nigerian secondary school literature Student’s Role Model. He was part of my list of Role models then 😂. Haven’t even read any of his book then but I just love him, probably because of the full grey Afro, maybe.
Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka AKA Wole Soyinka: First Sub-saharan African to be awarded a Nobel Prize In Literature in 1986. An amazing Yoruba born man, who also, took an active role in Nigeria’s political history and its struggle for independence from the British.
His Forest House In Abeokuta
Located far away behind a think forest, that from the road you will never imagine there’s a house at the end. The area is known as Ijegba background, one side of the main building stood on pillars, and it led to an adjourning building by the rear. His neighbors were animals and birds, no nearby building. Weird right?
The interior of the residence is laden with an array of ancient pieces of art collected by Soyinka over the course of his years, and some gifted. The main building has an amphitheater for drama rehearsals and performances, shooting range that provides a bird’s eye view of a section of the path that leads to the house, hidden reading rooms, a lot of reading spaces and a special prayer room for Christians, Muslims and traditionalists – to Soyinka, there is room for all religions to co-exist.
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A role model indeed… White grey hair 😍
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“A special prayer room for Christians, Muslims and traditionalists, there is room for all religions to co-exist”
That weird tho, it will be interesting to see how this religions co-exist in a room.
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Wole Soyinka is a great poet, should be ashamed that have not read any of his books.
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