Wole Soyinka, the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature, will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, at UC Davis. The lecture, free and open to the public, will be delivered in the campus's Main Theatre. Soyinka, who received the Nobel Prize in 1986, will be visiting UC Davis from Sept. 28 to Oct. 3 as a UC Regents' Professor. During his stay, he will conduct two writing workshops and be available for informal conversations with students and scholars. A dramatist, essayist and fiction writer, Soyinka has been cited for both having produced one of the most impressive literary collections of the 20th century and serving as an advocate on behalf of human rights. He was imprisoned and nearly executed as a result of his activism against political and cultural oppression.