List of awards and honours received by Wole Soyinka

Nigerian writer, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka (1934) was honoured by universities, literary organisations, government agencies, and special interest groups. His honours include the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "wide cultural perspective and poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence" and the Special Prize category of the Europe Theatre Prize in 2017 for his consistency "as a proponent of an ideal bridge between Europe and Africa in a deeply delicate period for the present and the future of our continent".

In 1986, Soyinka was conferred the Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR), a national honour of Nigeria, by Ibrahim Babangida.

Awards

Honorary degrees

• University of Leeds, 1973
• Yale University, 1980
• University of Toronto, 1992
• Harvard University, 1993
• Emory University, 1996
• SOAS University of London, 2002
• Princeton University, 2005
• Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, 2018
• University of Cambridge, 2022

Other awards

• 1989: Soyinka was enstooled as the "Akogun of Isara-Remo", a Nigerian chief, by the Odemo of the Isara people, his paternal clan.
• 2005: Soyinka was enstooled as the "Akinlatun of Egbaland", a Nigerian chief, by the Alake of the Egba people, his maternal clan.

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