In a statement released on July 12, 2024, the president praised Soyinka’s immense contributions to literature and society and announced that the National Theatre in Iganmu, Surulere, would be renamed “The Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the Creative Arts” in his honour.
Soyinka, who turns 90 on July 13, 2024, is celebrated worldwide as a playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and advocate for good governance.
He became the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 and has received numerous other prestigious awards, including the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature and the Europe Theatre Prize.
