LAGOS, Nigeria, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Renowned Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka has founded a political party, months before the presidential election, the BBC reported.
Soyinka, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, the first African to do so, was elected chairman of the Democratic Front for a People's Federation in Lagos, the British Broadcasting Corp. said.
The new party says it aims to combat corruption and improve health and education.
Soyinka's books and plays have won worldwide acclaim, but he is also known as a political activist. His book "The Man Died" in 1972 dealt with his imprisonment during Nigeria's 1967-70 civil war.
State, presidential and legislative elections are scheduled next year, but it is not known whether Soyinka will run himself.
