PHOTO NEWS: THE HOUSE WOLE SOSINKA LIVED IN OAU CAMPUS COMMISSIONED INTO A MUSEUM

The house in which Prof. Wole Soyinka lived on the campus of OAU Ife has been commissioned as a museum, with Ogun State partnering. This is honour well deserved. Glad we did it in his lifetime too. https://t.co/PiL5g2mXLU

Former presidential candidate, Remi Sonaiya tweeted on her twitter page.

Wole Soyinka, 84, is a man of notable works in drama, prose and politics. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature in 1986, and makes history as the last Nigerian to have won the prize in over thirty years.

While at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Soyinka taught Comparative Literature from 1975 to 1999. He has also taught at Oxford, Havard and Yale and has been a scholar in residence in several universities.

On July 31 2018, Nigeria celebrated the great man by turning his house while on the OAU campus into a museum.

Former presidential candidate, Remi Sonaiya, also a Nigerian writer and retired professor of French and Applied Linguistics, made the announcement on Twitter, after the commissioning on Tuesday.

The new museum was once the home of Wole Soyinka during his time as Lecturer at the University and the museum will be open to the general public and stocked with various monuments and literary works by and about the author.

Wole Soyinka's house has been turned into a Museum at OAU

 (Twitter/OluremiSonaiya)

This commissioning is a great way to celebrate a man whose legendary contributions have been pertinent to the growth of this country, while also boosting tourism potential.

Ogun State government will later in the year commission the residence of the late Fela Anikulapo Kuti in the state into a tourist centre.

About Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka, Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, was born in Abeokuta now Ogun State on July 13, 1934. He is claimed to be one of the first founders of a fraternity in Nigeria, though the meaning has been marred. He studied English Literature, Greek and Western History at the University College of Ibadan which was then affiliated to the University of London. He went on to London to study English Literature at the University of Leeds and founded the Drama Association of Nigeria in December 1964.

Wole Soyinka is most known for his plays the Trials of Brother Jero and wrote plays for radio and stage while studying in the UK. He worked with the Royal Court Theatre in London and has taught in numerous universities in and outside of Africa.

Soyinka was arrested in 1967 during the Nigerian Civil War and thrown in prison under solitary confinement until 1969. He is most celebrated for his brave seizure of the Western Nigerian Broadcasting Service in 1965 to broadcast a demand for the Western Nigerian elections to be cancelled.

His most recent awards include the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award 2009 and the Europe Theatre Prize in 2017.

There is so much that the writer has accomplished in his life and it is only fitting that he is celebrated and remembered while still alive.