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- <text id=94TT1676>
- <title>
- Dec. 05, 1994: Exiled: Wole Soyinka
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Dec. 05, 1994 50 for the Future
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 29
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- <p> EXILED. WOLE SOYINKA, 60, author, playwright and advocate for
- democracy; from his native Nigeria; in Paris. The first African
- winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature has been an embarrassingly
- prominent advocate of democracy in the eyes of the militarists
- who have ruled Nigeria since annulling a 1993 election. Deprived
- of his passport and alerted to his imminent arrest, Soyinka
- fled the country with papers provided by the French embassy
- in neighboring Benin. Safely in Paris, Soyinka wryly observed
- that his furtive flight "wounded my sexagenarian dignity."
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- </body>
- </article>
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