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Wole Soyinka

Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language

Charles de Gaulle

French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to reestablish democracy in France

Chinua Achebe

Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as the dominant figure of modern African literature