Ogun State is a state in southwestern Nigeria. As a Nigerian state, Ogun is the second most industrialised state after Lagos, with a focus on metal processing. It has good road and rail connections to the harbours in Lagos and Lekki. Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1986, lives in Ogun.
Aerial view of Gbagura mosque in Abeokuta in Ogun State
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Moshood Abiola Polytechnic entrance gate, Abeokuta, Ogun state
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Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka Hon. FRSL, known as Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "wide cultural perspective and... poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence", the first sub-Saharan African to be honoured in that category.
Soyinka in 2018
Soyinka, at Festivaletteratura in Mantua, 7 September 2019, Teatro Bibiena.
Soyinka in 2015.