Who won the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature?

a. Wole Soyinka of Nigeria
b. Ngugi Wa Thiongo of Kenya
c. Ousmane Sembene of Senegal
d. Miriam Makeba of South Africa
e. Leopold Senghor of Senegal


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