The WOLE SOYINKA Foundation

The WOLE SOYINKA Foundation is a foundation based in Covina, United States working on arts & culture, heritage, education.

The Wole Soyinka Foundation is a US-registered 501 public charity that promotes creativity and cultural exchange. Its flagship artist residency offers writers, artists, scholars and researchers a retreat for reflection and creative work on its estate in Ijegba Forest, Ogun State, Nigeria. The Foundation also runs an artist sponsorship programme, a reforestation project and a collection of art, antiquities and papers donated by Professor Wole Soyinka, which is open to students and the public on set days. Its stated aims include promoting pluralism and opposing prejudice, religious bigotry and intolerance, and celebrating the contributions of Africa and its diaspora to world civilisation. Its work is centred in Nigeria, with a US address in Covina, California.