Wole Soyinka - Legacy and Honours

Legacy and Honours

  • In 2011, the African Heritage Research Library and Cultural Centre built a writers' enclave in his honour. It is located in Adeyipo Village, Lagelu Local Government Area, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. The enclave includes a Writer-in-Residence Programme that enables writers to stay for a period of two, three or six months, engaging in serious creative writing.
  • 1973: Honorary PhD, University of Leeds
  • 1973–74: Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge
  • 1983: Elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
  • 1983: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, United States.
  • 1986: Nobel Prize for Literature
  • 1986 Agip Prize for Literature
  • 1986 Commander of the Federal Republic, CFR.
  • 1990: Benson Medal from Royal Society of Literature
  • 1993: Honorary doctorate, Harvard University
  • 2005: Honorary doctorate degree, Princeton University.
  • 2005: Conferred with the chieftaincy title of Akinlatun of Egbaland by the Alake, Oba of his Egba clan of Yorubaland. He was made a tribal aristocrat with the right to use the Yoruba title Oloye.
  • 2009: Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award

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