Here goes six throwback photos of Wole Shoyink, I predict they'll leave your mouth agape.

The Soyinka Family, 1938. S.A. (Essay) and Eniola (the Wild Christian) with Wole, Tinu and Femi.


Wole Soyinka and his sister Tinu in 1940.


Wole Soyinka, age nine (middle, front row) plays the lead role in the operetta The Magician at St. Peters School, 1945


The Soyinka children in 1945. In the front row, Tinu, Kayode and Yeside. In the back row, Wole and Femi


Wole Soyinka, age 18, a college freshman


Wole Soyinka with his daughter Moremi in 1963

Once while talking about his childhood, he said;

“I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer."

Canning beret since childhood...lol
Bad old-boy

A radical from childhood