FTP, who is this Nigerian playwright of The Lion and the Jewel  and Death and the King's Horseman?
In 1967, this author was jailed in 1967 for his attempting to broker peace during his country‘s civil war. During that time he wrote the collection Poems from Prison. Four years previously, he completed his second play, A Dance of the Forests.  In 1986, he won Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first African to do so. His two most famous plays are one  about a love triangle between Lakunle, Baroka, and Sidi, and another about the Elesin‘s failure to commit ritual suicide.  FTP, who is this Nigerian playwright of The Lion and the Jewel  and Death and the King's Horseman?
In 1967, this author was jailed in 1967 for his attempting to broker peace during his country‘s civil war.
Wole Soyinka