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Playwright in Search of a Role (2003-06-10)

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2003-06-10
Financial Times

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"Playwright in Search of a Role", Financial Times, 10 Jun 2003, p. V Financial Times Historical Archive, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/HS2304108033/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=0045214c. Accessed 29 Jun 2019

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Wole Soyinka has had a knack of getting into political deep water. That is why the writer, who in 1986 became the first African to win the Nobel prize for literature, has spent long periods of his life in exile. Now, at 68, he is in the gradual process of moving back to his home country, fired up with the idea of becoming more active in Nigerian politics...

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