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Africa's first Nobel prize winner for literature has spent more than 40 years writing poems, plays and novels which have sometimes thrust him into confrontation with authorities in Nigeria. He's known for bold campaigning on governance issues and for a lot of white hairs. Â鶹Éç Africa's Bilkisu Labaran was at school in northern Nigeria when she first came across Wole Soyinka's writings.