The telecom operator said in the edition, which commemorates Soyinka’s 90th birthday, the writer would also recount the extraordinary activism that influenced his work and inspired a movie on his political incarceration in Nigeria planned for release this year.

Born Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka on July 13, 1934, he was awarded the Nobel Laureate in Literature in 1986 for his “wide cultural perspective and… poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence”.

Part of the statement reads, “Soyinka cut his teeth in literature as a student of the University College, Ibadan, now known as the University of Ibadan and the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.

“Aside from the Nobel Prize for Literature, Soyinka was also awarded the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature in 1990; the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award in 2009; the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Lifetime Achievement, 2012; and the Europe Theatre Prize, Special Prize, 2017.”

The operator said African Voices Playmakers would air at 8.30 a.m. on Saturday on DSTV Channel 401.

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