page_title: Kayode Soyinka
section_title: Meeting world leaders
hierarchical_section_title: Kayode Soyinka / Meeting world leaders
caption_attribution_description: English: Kayode Soyinka with President Nelson Mandela
context_page_description: Kayode Soyinka is a Nigerian journalist, publisher, and author. He is the founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of Africa Today Magazine, one of Africa's high quality and most influential international news magazines on newsstands in more than 90 countries around the world.
context_section_description: Aside being an international journalist and publisher of repute, Kayode has walked through several corridors of power and mixed with leaders within and outside Nigeria. He has twice met with the British Monarch Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, at Buckingham Palace and in Windsor, by special invitation.
  He also met and interviewed distinguished statesmen such as the late South African President Nelson Mandela; Nobel Peace Prize-winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu; the assassinated South African freedom fighter Chris Hani; the late former British Prime Minister James Callaghan; former British Foreign Secretary and deputy Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Howe (later Lord Howe); former British Foreign Secretary Dr David Owen (later Lord Owen); former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo; former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga; former American United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young; Sir Shridath Ramphal and Chief Emeka Anyaoku, both former Secretaries-General of the Commonwealth, and many more.
  Early February 2002 when former British Prime Minister Tony Blair embarked on his first tour of West Africa, Kayode featured in the official entourage. The high-profile visit covered four countries – Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Senegal. Kayode's inclusion on Prime Minister Blair's delegation was in recognition of his achievements as an international media figure. And in 2015, Kayode had the distinguished honour of being invited by Prime Minister Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda to be part of the small Caribbean island's delegation to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Malta.
caption: Kayode Soyinka with President Nelson Mandela in 1995
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