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However, Soyinka himself became an atheist later in life. His father's position enabled him to obtain electricity and a radio at home. He writes extensively about his childhood in his memoir Aké: The Childhood Years (1981).


Soyinka, at the Mantua Festivaletteratura, September 7, 2019, Teatro Bibiena.
His mother was one of the most prominent members of the influential Ransome-Kuti family: she was a granddaughter of Rev. Canon J. J. Ransome-Kuti as the only daughter of his first daughter Anne Lape Iyabode Ransome-Kuti, and therefore a niece of Olusegun Azariah Ransome-Kuti, Oludotun Ransome-Kuti and niece-in-law of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. Soyinka's smart number code first cousins ​​once removed included musician Fela Kuti, human rights activist Beko Ransome-Kuti, politician Olikoye Ransome-Kuti and activist Yemisi Ransome-Kuti. His second cousins ​​include musicians Femi Kuti and Seun Kuti, and dancer Yeni Kuti.

In 1940, after attending St. Peter's Primary School in Abeokuta, Soyinka went to Abeokuta Primary School, where he won several prizes for literary composition. In 1946 he was accepted by Government College in Ibadan, at that time one of Nigeria's elite secondary schools. After completing his course at Government College in 1952, he began his studies at University College Ibadan (1952–54), affiliated with the University of London. He studied English literature, Greek and Western history. Among his lecturers was Molly Mahood, a British literary scholar. In 1953–54, his second and last year at University College, Soyinka began work on "Keffi's Birthday Treat", a short radio play for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service that aired in July 1954. While at university, Soyinka and six others founded the Pirates' Confraternity, a student anti-corruption and justice-seeking organization, the first confraternity in Nigeria.