Brazil’s President welcomes Wole Soyinka
Abdullateef Fowewe
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva hosted Nigerian Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka in Brasília during the state visit of President Bola Tinubu to Brazil.
In a post on his official X account, President Lula remarked, “Today I received the President of Nigeria and also had the pleasure of meeting the great writer Wole Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. An honor to celebrate together the strength of culture and the ties between Brazil and Africa.”
During the courtesy meeting, Soyinka presented his book, titled Mito, Literatura e o Mundo Africano (Myth, Literature, and the African World), to the Brazilian leader.
