AFRICAN NOBEL LAUREATE IN LITERATURE – WINNERS

1986 — 🇳🇬 Wole Soyinka, 52yrs
1988 — 🇪🇬 Naguib Mahfouz, 77
1991 — 🇿🇦 Nadine Gordimer, 68
2003 — 🇿🇦 John Coetzee, 63
2021 — 🇹🇿 Abdulrazak Gurnah, 72

Prof. Wole Soyinka is Africa’s first winner, won 37yrs ago.