Wole Soyinka awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
1986 · Event
Soyinka becomes the first African laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
On these timelines: Master, Sub-Saharan Africa
Around 1986
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- Reunification of Germany (1990)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston) (1992)