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Wole Soyinka

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1986

Poetry
The 1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature Wole Soyinka reads his poem 'Lost Poems' from "Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known". The video was recorded at Harvard University in April, 2005.
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