Tinubu renames National Theatre after Wole Soyinka
President Bola Tinubu has renamed the National Theatre in Iganmu, Surulere, as The Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the Creative Arts in honor of Wole Soyinka’s 90th birthday on July 13, 2024. Soyinka is an internationally acclaimed playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, actor, singer, composer, and documentarian.
He is also a prominent advocate for good governance and social justice, and in 1986, he became the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Soyinka has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature and the Europe Theatre Prize.
President Tinubu, through his spokesman Ajuri Ngelale, praised Soyinka as one of the finest minds of his generation and a steadfast opponent of injustice, corruption, and oppression.
“I am, accordingly, delighted to have the honour to announce the decision of the Federal Government to rename the National Theatre in Iganmu, Surulere, as The Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the Creative Arts,” the President said.
