http://saharareporters.com/2014/11/25/playwright-and-nobel-laureate-wole-soyinka-diagnosed-cancer

Speaking at the June 12 Cultural
Center in Ogun State, "Kongi"
encouraged awareness and
preventative measures in
stopping the spread of the
disease. He attributes early
detection and proper nutrition
to his stable health so far. Soyinka said that initially he felt
the cancer was “an unwanted
squatter in his body." He later
resolved that he "had to get rid
of it whether it is a slow growing
one or malignant.”
While not hinting at the kind or
extent of cancer he has,
Soyinka's son, Dr. Olaokun
Soyinka, Commissioner for
Health in Ogun State, told The
Nation his father was treated for
“prostate cancer.”