"A tour to wole Soyinka's house in the outskirts of Abeokuta. (Inside the thick Forrest)

Prof.Wole Soyinka said, he wanted to build a small cottage for himself but when he received the NOBLE PRIZE he concluded on enlarging it to make it his home.

His has is located in a thick Forrest, far away from the town of Abeokuta, the house is build with red bricks with slanted windows to allow air in to the house.

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Wole soyinka said he acquired this house in 1984, while he was still a lecturer in the university of Ife now known as Obafemi Awolowo University located at Ile-Ife, he said he since relocated to the house since his retirement.

Soyinka recalls an experience on the first day he took laboures to the land to start working on it, according to him, after walking a long mile from the town the laboures became scared that he was taking them for a slaughter, so much that one of the driver made an excuse that he wanted to ease himself and he ran away for his dear life.

The front view of the prof. Wole soyinka's house in the thick Forrest, outskirt of Abeokuta.

The sitting room of the house is awesome and a look at the interior you will notice how some art work are well arrange to bring out it beauty.

In his house, he has some accent and artistic symbols he still keep for tourism sake. On several occasions where journalist and students from different institutions has visited the beautiful house of the Noble Noret to see things for themselves.

See some photos of the numerious visits and strange things that can be seen in his house.

In his house, there is a stream which run across the ground through a small bush that hide a deceptful mashland under a culvert.