By Wole Soyinka It is happening all over again. History is repeating itself and, alas, within such an agonizingly short span of time. How often must we warn against the enervating lure of appeasement in face of aggression and will to dominate! I do not hesitate to draw attention to Volume III of my INTERVENTION […]
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Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate, has said the many challenges including fuel scarcity faced in Nigeria currently, have continued to overshadow the call for restructuring. He said this on Saturday in an article titled ‘Blame passing — the New Year gift to a nation’. Soyinka said such challenges have monopolised the attention of Nigerians. “Even […]
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Professor Wole Soyinka, the 1986 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, has won this year’s The Europe Theatre Prize. Announcing the award, the General Secretary, The Europe Theatre Prize, Alessandro Martinez, said Professor Soyinka won the Special Prize category of the award for his consistency “as a proponent of an ideal bridge between Europe and Africa […]
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Less than a year after he tore his green card following the emergence of President Donald Trump, Wole Soyinka is going back to America. He is scheduled to deliver the Richard D. Cohen Lectures at Harvard University Centre for African Studies from November 14 to November 16. “I’ll go in as an alien, an alien […]
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Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has been elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In the announcement made by the Academy on Wednesday, Chimamanda was listed among 40 foreign honorary members from 19 countries. Other foreigners honourees are scientist Ruth Arnon; chemist Clare Grey; vaccinologist Rino Rappuoli; former Health Minister for China Zhu […]
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Award winning Nigerian Author, Chimamanda Ngozi- Adichie has been elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters as a foreign honorary member. According to a press release by the Academy on http://artsandletters.org, the honorary members will be inducted at the annual induction in May. This induction will make Chimamanda the second Nigerian to be […]
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The Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has criticised the Nigerian police for planning to stop an anti-government protest scheduled for Monday. The protest was inspired by ace musician Innocent Tuface Idibia, to highlight the failure of the current government to tackle several issues facing Nigerians. After the police said it could not guarantee the safety of […]
Continue ReadingAfrica’s Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka said he has fulfilled his pledge to destroy his US residency green card and leave the country if Donald Trump won the presidential election. AFP quoted the Nigerian Professor as confirming that he has already lived up to his promise on the sidelines of an education conference at the […]
Continue ReadingWole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, has said it is an unlikely event that Donald Trump becomes president of the United States, but if does happen, he has vowed to cut his green card. Soyinka, while giving a speech to students of Oxford University, England, on Wednesday, said: “If in the unlikely event he does win, the […]
Continue ReadingNobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has lashed out at the presidency for its seeming inability to rein in the violent activities of herdsmen across the country. In his address to the National Conference on Culture and Tourism, Wednesday, Mr. Soyinka said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government was yet to come up with an articulate solution to […]
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