Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Soyinka is extremely vocal about politics. For example, he had a lot to say about the Nigerian government's handling of the kidnapping of 200 girls in Nigeria in 2014. (Source.)
Soyinka was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. (Source.)
Soyinka's been a Professor in Residence at Los Angeles's Loyola Marymount University… and also spent two years in solitary confinement once. (Source.)
The author has directed two productions of the play himself: one at Lincoln Center in 1987, and one in Chicago in 1976. (Source.)