Wole Soyinka, 2023, and the price of picking side – How one election recast a Nobel Laureate
By Swill Mavua FOR 50 years, Wole Soyinka was untouchable. Prison under Gowon. Exile under Abacha. Nobel Prize in 1986. The Man Died. The “conscience of the nation.” When Soyinka spoke, Nigeria listened – not because he was Yoruba, but because he