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PLEASE NOTE. As of June 2004 these pages and the links herein are no longer being updated or maintained. Disclaimer : Oakland Unified School District is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. Wole Soyinka was born on 13 July 1934 at Abeokuta, near
Ibadan in western Nigeria. After preparatory university studies
in 1954 at Government College in Ibadan, he continued at the University
of Leeds, where, later, in 1973, he took his doctorate. During the
six years spent in England, he was a dramaturgist at the Royal Court
Theatre in London 1958-1959. In 1960, he was awarded a Rockefeller
bursary and returned to Nigeria to study African drama. At the same
time, he taught drama and literature at various universities in
Ibadan, Lagos, and Ife, where, since 1975, he has been professor
of comparative literature. In 1960, he founded the theatre group,
"The 1960 Masks" and in 1964, the "Orisun Theatre Company", in which
he has produced his own plays and taken part as actor. He has periodically
been visiting professor at the universities of Cambridge, Sheffield,
and Yale. more..
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