Recognition is the curse I carry with me. - Wole Soyinka

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Recognition is the curse I carry with me.

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About Wole Soyinka

Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright, poet, novelist, essayist and pro-democracy activist. In 1986 he became the first African winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Native Name: Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé Ṣóyíinká
Alternative Names: Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka • Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka
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I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
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There is nothing in the least delicate about the slaughter of innocents. We all subscribe to the lofty notions contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but, for some reason, become suddenly coy and selective when it comes to defending what is obviously the most elementary of these rights, which is the right to life.
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