Ideas, like everything else, can be corrupted. Power is lik… - Wole Soyinka

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Ideas, like everything else, can be corrupted. Power is like that: it pollutes everything it touches.

Wole Soyinka

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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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Ideas, like everything else, can be corrupted. Power is like that: it pollutes everything it touches. - Wole Soyinka

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