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Article: PAGE TURNERS: A CONVERSATION WITH WOLE SOYINKA; A voice for a nation: His life woven into Nigeria's struggle.(WORLD)(Interview)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- May 25, 2006
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Byline: John Freeman
Special to the Star Tribune
As Africa's first Nobel laureate for literature, Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka lives a certain dichotomy.
He has been flown around the world for conferences and has visited many halls of government, invited to speak on humanitarian crises. But so thoroughly has he become his voice that even when he writes of himself he disappears.
"There are moments when I very much resent what I am impelled to do," he said carefully, "when what I was doing was interrupted by yet another crisis, another unacceptable series of events, contradictions in society that I feel I need to talk about. I ...