Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka turns eighty on the 13th, and there's already been quite a bit of coverage.
In The Sun Henry Akubuiro offers a useful overview of his life, in Wole Soyinka @ 80: Footprints of an iconoclast.
(Several of Soyinka's books are under review at the complete review; see, for example, Of Africa and A Play of Giants.)
(Several of Soyinka's books are under review at the complete review; see, for example, Of Africa and A Play of Giants.)