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Should they write or fight?
When Africa’s stormy politics turns into real, blood and iron war, writers find themselves in a position where they must take sides but must they grab a gun and head for the trenches or employ the...
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Prof. Soyinka: Religion Against Humanity
Religion Against Humanity The following is the text of an address titled "Religion Against Humanity," given by Nobel Prize-winning writer Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian and member of UNESCO's...
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Nobel laureate Soyinka: Nigeria 'at war' with sect
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka on Friday dismissed calls for peace negotiations with the radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram and said Nigerian society is at stake in what he described as a war for...
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Review of Achebe and Soynika Writings
The Gods Are Angry False narratives hamper Africa's development, while dangerous new ideologies flood in from the outside. Africa as we know it is a fiction, constructed after the arrival of Arab and...
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Soyinka Urges Intellectuals to Protect Nigeria’s Democracy
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has said intellectuals and artistes, as the custodians of the people’s culture, have a duty to protect democracy in the country. He noted that there is a...
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May 29 lacks what June 12 possesses —Soyinka
NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has described June 12 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day, a day which, he said “embodies unity of purpose, equity and justice, the manifestation of the sovereign will of...
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Soyinka: I do not pander to the expectations of the sanctimonious
The Village Mourners Association, a write up by Prof. Soyinka on June 19, 2013 in response to ‘those who are making a mountain out of a mole hill’ as a result of his absence from Chinua Achebe’s...
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Prof. Soyinka cautions on APC’s visit to Obasanjo: Nigeria heading for...
A Statement by Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka “An APC-led group, we understand, has been paying courtesy visits to former Heads of States. Would it be correct to state that their purpose is captured in...
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Soyinka rejected Centenary Award: 'The Canonisation Of Terror'
*‘Can’t share honours with Abacha’ The sheer weight of indignation and revulsion of most of Nigerian humanity at the recent Boko Harma atrocity in Yobe is most likely to have overwhelmed a tiny...
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The Challenge of Change – A Burden of Choice
Frst, let us not simplify the challenge. There are no blacks and whites. It is not a contest between saints and demons, not one between salvation and damnation. If anything, it is closer to a fork in...
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