The Nobel Laureate’s reaction was measured but firm. “If they wish to cancel it, that is their business,” he told journalists at Freedom Park in Lagos. “I will not go there to help them do it.” That statement underscored his indifference to the privileges of access or status,

The Kano State Government has dismissed a report by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), which accused the state of violating

The United States consulate in Lagos, Nigeria, has revoked the visa of writer Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate said Tuesday.According to a letter addressed to Soyinka from the consulate, seen by AFP,

Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has said the US revoked his visa and banned him from the country. The 91-year-old author, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986, said the US consulate asked him to bring in his passport so his visa could be cancelled in person as new unspecified information had come to light.