Tag: Wole Soyinka
3 Presidents For Soyinka Literature Prize
The biennial Wole Soyinka Prize for creative writing continues to grow in proportion with at least three serving heads of…
Wole Soyinka’s Tribute to Maya Angelou
Maya’s ‘AFRICA’ was more than a mere literary metaphor and reference point – it went beyond race identification. To obtain…
Soyinka: I Never Said Patience Jonathan Is An Illiterate
Over a year ago, when MuhdLawal published online the following statement attributed to Professor Wole Soyinka — “When you marry…
A Cultural Agenda For Peace
By Wole Soyinka It was purely by chance that the date decided upon for re-animating this establishment – The Centre…
Soyinka Speaks To Africa
By Adebayo Lamikanra One of the great tragedies afflicting our continent is that the story of Africa and Africans has,…
Soyinka: Justice Is Never ‘Siddon Look’!
By Wole Soyinka Let me be candid. It was with mixed feelings that I accepted to deliver this lecture. On…
Marquee Nigeria
By Nelson Egwoyi We live in a marquee world! From time immemorial, history has vested us with epochal individuals, events,…
Soyinka Taught Me Acting
Top bilingual Nollywood actor, Yemi Solade, who was one of the students of the literature icon and Nobel Prize winner,…
More tributes as Ekiti declares 7-day mourning for Olayinka
Gov. Kayode Fayemi of the western Nigerian state of Ekiti on Sunday declared a seven-day mourning for his Deputy, Mrs…
Nobel laureates Soyinka, Gordimer mourn Achebe
Africa’s first Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka and a renowned poet, John Pepper Clark, said Friday they have lost “a…
Ghost Missions On The Gravy Train
By Wole Soyinka I had thought to leave this subject strictly to the discretionary powers of the nation’s Women’s Organisations,…
Who Grasps The Nettle For Jonathan Now?
By Dimeji Daniel I remember that it was exactly 73 days after President Goodluck Jonathan took the reins of power…
Wole Soyinka: If Religion Was Taken Away, I’d Be Happy
The Nobel prize-winner Wole Soyinka spoke this week at the Hay Festival in Mexico. In an extract from his talk,…
NOT AGAIN, JONATHAN!!!
The most generous response that can be given to President Jonathan’s recent statement on the people’s fuel subsidy protest is…
Why Soyinka Is Special
Professor Robert Elliot Fox, a United States of America citizen who taught in Nigeria for seven years and considers it…