“Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.”

— Wole Soyinka · Wisdom quote

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. — Wole Soyinka quote card
Playwright, Nobel laureate · born 1934

Nigerian playwright and poet; the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1986).

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