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Hace 1 día · By Promise Adiele
Hace 5 días · In this engaging episode, we delve into the role of Wole Soyinka as a public intellectual within the political arena of Nigeria. The conversation scrutinizes his response to the 2023 elections...
Hace 2 días · Soyinka’s betrayal was seen as a blow to these efforts, a step backward in the fight for cultural self-determination and literary autonomy.In the aftermath of the boycott and Soyinka’s controversial decision, the African literary community was left to grapple with the complex legacy of the Nobel Prize and its relationship to the ongoing struggle for racial justice and cultural representation.
Hace 5 días · Professor Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian playwright and political activist from the Yoruba ethnic group, became the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. King Carl Gustaf of Sweden presented him with the award, marking an important moment in African literary history.
Hace 1 día · Dotting on the theme Redefining African Identity through Integrity (In celebration of Wole Soyinka at 90), the exhibition, The African I-D-E-N-T-I-T-Y initiative, is conceived from the themes of the 2013 and 2014 editions of VoTC: “Good Governance and Democracy in Nigeria” and “One Thousand and One Faces of Corruption” – which were themes conceived by Soyinka himself while serving as ...
Hace 20 horas · Wole Soyinka has always been a political figure. At the time of the Nigerian Civil war, 1966-1970, he tried to broke a ceasefire between the federal government and the Biafran rebels who wanted to secede from the Nigerian nation state.
Hace 5 días · Wole Soyinka is by every intellectual and academic classification an iconic figure. His reputation blossomed after he won the Nobel Laureate in 1986 having distinguished himself as a literary genius. For involving in the Nigeria/Biafra war, the Yakubu Gowon atrocious military junta incarcerated him.
