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The Man Died will be released in July to coincide with Soyinka’s 90th birthday. Nollywood veteran, Wale Ojo, will play famous Nigerian writer, Wole Soyinka, in a film adaptation of one of the latter’s most famous books, The Man Died.The memoir chronicles the author’s thoughts when the government held him as a political prisoner during the Nigerian Civil War in the late 1960s. Soyinka published the autobiographical work in 1972, two years after the war ended. He made history when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, the first Sub-Saharan African to win it. On Soyinka’s 89th bir…

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