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Wole
Wole Wole Soyinka, the 1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature and Nigeria's greatest playwright, has given this name an indelible association with radical intellectual courage and artistic integrity. Characters named Wole in fiction are often cast as truth-tellers — playwrights, journalists, or activists whose gift for language becomes their most potent weapon against oppressive power.
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