Kayode Soyinka was born on Olukayode Adedeji Soyinka; 15 December 1957 and is a Nigerian journalist, publisher, and author.
21 Facts About Kayode Soyinka
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Kayode Soyinka is the founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of Africa Today Magazine, one of Africa's international news magazines.
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Kayode Soyinka married Titilope Oluwadamilola on 15 October 1983.
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Kayode Soyinka was made a 21st Century Trust Fellow in April 1991 after a programme on the subject of Human Rights in International Relations, which took place at Worcester College, University of Oxford, under the supervision of two fellows Professor Kevin Boyle, director of Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, UK, and Ambassador Olara Otunnu, president of the International Peace Academy, New York.
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When Kayode Soyinka finished at BBHS, he picked a clerical job with PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc in Ilupeju, Lagos.
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In 1976, at 18, Kayode Soyinka signed as a cub Reporter with Sketch Newspapers in Ibadan.
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Kayode Soyinka served Sketch Newspapers in Ibadan and Benin City.
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Kayode Soyinka worked closely as a special assistant, confidant and trusted lieutenant of the billionaire publisher and international businessman for over four years, establishing and running the London office of the newspaper conglomerate.
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In May, 1995 Kayode Soyinka left Newswatch and founded his own news magazine, Africa Today, one of Africa's international news magazines.
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Kayode Soyinka was a trustee and Chairperson of the London Management Committee of the Commonwealth Journalists Association and, with the late Derek Ingram, represented the CJA on the board of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative when it was founded.
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Kayode Soyinka later followed this up with an article that further condemned the annulment in the London newspaper, the Sunday Independent of 11 July 1993.
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At the height of Chief Abiola's incarceration by the ruthless General Sani Abacha regime, Kayode Soyinka initiated a meeting in 1995 between the South African clergyman, Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the request of Dr Doyin Abiola, one of Chief Abiola's wives.
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Kayode Soyinka has twice met with the British Monarch Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, at Buckingham Palace and in Windsor.
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Early February 2002 when former British Prime Minister Tony Blair embarked on his first tour of West Africa, Kayode Soyinka featured in the official entourage.
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In 2015, Kayode Soyinka had the 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 in Malta.
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Kayode Soyinka made attempts on three occasions to be elected governor of Ogun State, Nigeria.
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Kayode Soyinka lost the ticket to the incumbent governor Chief Olusegun Osoba who was once his manager at the Sketch newspapers in Ibadan.
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Kayode Soyinka was a leader of the All Progressives Congress in Ogun State.
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Kayode Soyinka has since retired from politics to concentrate on his journalism.
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Kayode Soyinka is the author of "Born into Journalism: Memoir of a Newspaper Reporter".
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In "Born into Journalism", Kayode Soyinka shared his experiences of being a journalist.