Awards and Honors

• 2019 — The Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM)
• 2005 — Princeton University Fellowship
• 2005 — The Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, established in his honor.
• 1994 — Royal African Society’s African Literature Award
• 1986 — Nobel Prize in Literature

Honorary Doctorates from multiple universities, including Harvard University, University of Leeds, and Yale University.