By Joshua Akpan
On November 27, 1895, Swedish inventor, chemist and occasional poet, Alfred Nobel instituted the famous Nobel Prize, to bequeath a lasting legacy in the fields of science, medicine, literature and governance. Nobel is also known for inventing the Dynamite.
In 1986, history was made, when the Nobel Foundation, at The Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden, welcomed its first-ever Black and African winner. Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, born July 13, 1934, in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, had etched his name among the pantheons of Nobel laureates by winning the prize in Literature.
His Prize Motivation by the Nobel family wrote of Soyinka as ‘who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones, fashion the drama of existence’.
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It is so fitting that Watbridge Hotels recognises legends and society.