See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.

He took an active role in Nigeria's political history and its struggle for independence from Great Britain. He produced his new satire The Trials of Brother Jero. In 1973 the National Theatre London commissioned and premiered the play The Bacchae of Euripides.

Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian writer notable especially as a playwright and poet; he was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature the first person in Africa and the diaspora to be so honoured. He has also taught at the universities of Oxford Harvard and Yale. Soyinka was born into a Yoruba family in Abeokuta.