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Playwright and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, paid a courtesy visit to President Bola Tinubu in Lagos on Sunday and said he would reserve all his observations about Tinubu’s administration until one year into his tenure in May 2024. Soyinka described this as a personal policy of his, saying this one-year delay gives the President […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has on Friday, given those accusing him of parading fake academic credentials 30 days to submit all their evidence to the relevant agencies like EFCC, ICPC, DPP et al, for investigation. He noted that if found culpable, he would strip himself of any titles and honours he might […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has urged the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari to promote peace with a traditional religious priestess, Yeye Ajesikemi Olokun Omolara Olatunji, who was threatened not to hold Isese festival in Ilorin. Prof. Soyinka also urged the monarch to make restitution in whichever way he can for inflicting […]
Continue ReadingKongi, Nigeria’s Nobel Laureate, a deity before whom many Nigerians tether goats, sprinkle oil, pour libations and offer ekuru of appeasement, is going through ferment. It is a period comparable to that low moment which, the Yoruba say, when big misfortunes wrestle one down, smaller travails defecate into one’s mouth – Ti iya nla ba gbe’ni san’le, kekeke […]
Continue ReadingLast week, the key topic of discussion among Nigerians was fascism. Africa’s first Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, used the word “fascism” to describe the Nigerian online community which is demanding improved governance. Many argued that Soyinka was not referring to that community but to the vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Dr. Datti Baba-Ahmed, […]
Continue ReadingThe “Obidients” – supporters of the mission and vision of Mr. Peter Obi, candidate of the Labour Party in Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential election had it coming. And now they are getting their “comeuppance” served in flagellating doses, from Professor Wole Soyinka, grandmaster in the art of dissent, debate and reasoning who has all it takes […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has been dragged on social media after expressing displeasure at a statement made by the vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed. Datti Baba-Ahmed, whose ticket with his principal, Peter Obi, emerged third in the February 25 presidential election, had spoken about the Supreme Court […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has said that he has never felt the need to embrace any religion. Soyinka who described himself as a mythologist during the public presentation of his two-volume collection of essays, further revealed that he doesn’t worship deities even though he considers deities as creatively real. Soyinka said: “Do I really […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has questioned the Nigerian Government on how the farmer-herder crisis is being handled. In a pre-recorded interview with Channels Television which was aired on Monday August 22, the literary icon wondered why the government was yet to ban the cattle group, Miyetti Allah, while it had proscribed the […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has expressed disgust at a viral video showing some purported members of the National Association of Seadogs otherwise called Pyrates Confraternity mocking the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in a song. In a short video clip, the members dressed in red and white […]
Continue ReadingWednesday July 13 was the great man’s 88th birthday. Given all the battles he fought over the years, hardly any prophet could have prophesied that Professor Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka would live to the age of 88. The towering writer who stunned the world as the very first black man to win the coveted Nobel Prize […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has on Sunday met with Yoruba Youth Leader (YYL) and Yoruba Nation campaigner, Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Ighoho in the neighbouring Republic of Benin. Yoruba Nation arrowhead and leader of the Umbrella body of Yoruba Self-determination Groups, Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide, Banji Akintoye and his deputy, […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Saturday said the resumption of investigation into the murder of a former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, was already hamstrung and disrobed of credibility with the emergence of a prime suspect in the case as the National Secretary of the […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has said that religion is the number one problem hindering Nigerians from being liberated as “rational beings.” Soyinka said this while speaking with a professor of African Literature, Dr. Louisa Egbunike. He stated that “if religion becomes an excuse for flouting the law, then that religion has got to […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has called on the government of the Republic of Benin to release Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, to continue his journey. Speaking with journalists in Lagos on Friday during an interactive session titled, “Sanctions on the loose: Chasing the gnat with a sledgehammer,” […]
Continue ReadingHe was so daring early in life that nobody gave him any chance of living up to 87 years on this earth. But here we are: Professor Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka, that is Wole Soyinka for short, is 87 today. On my small part, I did not want anything to do with schooling anymore, being much of a […]
Continue ReadingLike the Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo did some days ago, the Playwright, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Monday, granted an interview to BBC News Pidgin over the midnight invasion of the home of Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho because of his struggle on Yoruba Nation or Yoruba self determination. He spoke on Nnamdi Kanu, Miyeti […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, in an interview with Arise News on Monday, has said another Democracy Day may not be celebrated in Nigeria if the system of government is not decentralised. The octogenarian lamented and likened the tempo for disintegration in recent time in Nigeria to that witnessed prior to the civil […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the statement of the President, Muhammadu Buhari to civilian dissidents as wrongly targeted and tragically untimely. The Nobel laureate stated that Buhari’s language in utterance and what was known as ‘body language’ was of a different temper at the time innocent citizens and farm destruction including mass displacement were […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has said he does not believe Nigerian unity is attainable under the current regime of the President, Muhammadu Buhari due to its systemic failure. Soyinka said this in Abuja on Saturday at the book reading and signing of two of his books titled: ‘Trumpism in Academe’ and ‘Chronicles […]
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