Wole Soyinka's Prison Memoir
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•‘Turning my life into something people can watch, pains me’: Wole Soyinka on having his memoir made into a movie
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Wole Soyinka won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 .
He was sent to prison without trial for speaking out about the civil war in his native Nigeria .
While in solitary confinement he scrawled notes and poems using meat bones, handmade ink and toilet paper.
Now aged 90 , Soyinka spoke with CNN ’s Larry Madowo at his home in Abeokuta , Southwestern Nigeria .
Nobel Prize winner says he was already heavily politicized at that time.
He says he saw the destruction of polling booths and the tearing up of results.
"I refuse to back down on my beliefs, on my activities simply because I’ve become a Nobel laureate," he says.
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