His troubles with his country's authoritarian rulers date back to his early satires
His troubles with his country's authoritarian rulers date back to his early satires _A Dance of the  Forests_ and _Kongi's Harvest_, and in 1967 he was imprisoned for sympathizing with a secessionist  uprising. It was while in prison that he produced some of his best work, including the poetry collection  _Shuttle in the Crypt_ and the novel _The Man Died_. FTP, name this exiled poet, playwright, and  Yoruba folklorist, who in 1986 became the first black African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
His troubles with his country's authoritarian rulers date back to his early satires
Wole {Soyinka}