Playwright & poet
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian playwright and the first African writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, who spent two years in solitary confinement for opposing the Biafran war.
Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, playwright, and poet. He has written three novels, ten collections of short stories, seven poetry collections, twenty-five plays and five memoirs. He has also written two translated works and many articles and short stories for newspapers and periodicals. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "wide cultural perspective and poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence".
- Born
- 1934-07-13, Abeokuta, NigeriaA Friday
- At birth
- Sun in Cancer, Moon in Leo
- Nationality
- Nigeria
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1934-07-13, Abeokuta, Nigeria · time unknown, noon chart
Africa/Lagosthe zone used then
Africa/LagosThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Cancer | 20°20′ | Direct |
| Moon | Leo | 9°15′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Cancer | 17°16′ | Retrograde |
| Venus | Gemini | 17°44′ | Direct |
| Mars | Gemini | 28°20′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Libra | 14°50′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Aquarius | 27°14′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Taurus | 1°12′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Virgo | 10°19′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Cancer | 24°11′ | Direct |
Wole Soyinka is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Wole Soyinka was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.